[lbo-talk] Patients Are Not Consumers

[fernando cassia]

"How did it become normal, or for that matter even acceptable, to refer 
to medical patients as “consumers”? The relationship between patient and 
doctor used to be considered something special, almost sacred. Now 
politicians and supposed reformers talk about the act of receiving care 
as if it were no different from a commercial transaction, like buying a 
car — and their only complaint is that it isn’t commercial enough.

What has gone wrong with us"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/opinion/22krugman.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/opinion/22krugman.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB>