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This commentary was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 20, Number 3, Pages 83-89, Fall 2015. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Public Law 89-97, the Social Security Amendments of 1965 that created...

Publication The current medical marketplace is vastly different from the marketplace that existed in the 1970s and ’80s when the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act codified the Food and Drug Administration’s mission. Despite rapidly advancing technology and...

There was a time when medicine was referred to both as a science and an art. In antiquity the art part took precedence since individual experience as well as empiric observation formed the basis of the practice of medicine. Well into the last century...

Illustration by Sam Prickett. There is, by design, a monopoly on medical regulation in Alabama, where the board of medical examiners is controlled by a private, nonprofit organization whose members actively participate in the market they are tasked...

@marimphil wrote: can you guys explain to me what is meant by "the golden age of medicine has passed"? Why are docs getting paid less? Why do people say that medicine as a career is going down the drain? Thats its not nearly what you thought it was...