"The American Teaching Hospital: School for Psychopaths" by David Penner
June 12th, 2020 Medicine has changed. We used to be a calling that catered to the public welfare, and our prime consideration was the patient. Now we are a business, and some of us practice as impersonal corporations, with the bottom line the profits, not the well-being of the patient.” — From The Doctor , by Dr. Edward E. Rosenbaum, 1991 The most shocking thing about the neoliberal health care model is not that it bankrupts and murders hundreds of thousands of Americans each year, but that vast numbers of physicians continue to support it. The insatiable depravity of the anti-single-payer virus has metastasized throughout every organ of the American teaching hospital, an institution which has betrayed its sacrosanct purpose, and which increasingly inculcates residents with the pernicious idea that good health care is a privilege and not a right. The teaching hospital has become a dangerous place, not only for patients, but also for trainees, who are being forged into