Managed Care
It seems that in today's technologically rich world with the abundance of resources available to mankind that our collective health should be in a much better state. Despite the massive amounts of money spent towards finding cures to man's ills, the chronic illnesses such as cancer and diabetes continue to grow and trouble the people of our society.
Managed care therefore must be investigated as a root cause of the failures of today's medical profession in an honest and frank manner if any true understanding of what is happening may occur. The purpose of this essay is to discuss how managed care has fallen desperately short in its aims to control medical costs, and in fact will be highlighted as a main cause for the problem itself.
Overtreatment
The idea of profit for health care has caused serious conflicts of interest within the practice of modern medicine. The Hippocratic Oath provides the necessary guidance in administering medicine but the idea of healing in our society ignores many tenants of the idea. The oath reads "I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings,...
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