Post Author: Edmond Cabbabe, MD

Edmond Cabbabe is a plastic surgeon.

Edmond Cabbabe is a plastic surgeon.

The commercialization of the medical profession

Physician
December 10, 2025

The medical profession has gone through major changes from the days-past to present days. The transition from quackery to science, and from role assuming or inheriting to regulated graduate and postgraduate education.

The changes took place over centuries, but the most notable evolution in medical knowledge and training took place in the last couple of centuries and continues to evolve. Evolves may be used to describe positive as well as negative …

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The fall of the patient-doctor bond: How corporate medicine is changing health care

Physician
February 15, 2023

Fifty years ago, medical graduates’ licensing required membership in the AMA, the state, and the local county societies known as organized medicine (OM). Physicians, through their OM, wrote the rules and guidelines of the practice of medicine, controlled the hospitals through their medical staff organizations, and jointly approved what health insurance covered with the insurance carriers.

In the last 40 years, gradual changes in our country have affected our patients and …

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