Hospitals Are Killing Us?

December 3, 2018

Dr. Patricia A. Farrell

Hospitals are on a desperate run to improve their bottom lines as they compete with the ever-encroaching medical “shops” being opened by major new players in the healthcare game. First, it was small shops for immediate medical attention for coughs, cuts or similar problems. These have now been aligned in corporations that include chain-store pharmacies and insurance companies. The burgeoning number of offsite surgical and imaging sites had already made inroads into lucrative hospital procedures.