In these days of “my way or the highway” corporate-captured authoritarian medicine, healthcare honchos call the shots. You have rights you are not told about including the right to communicate with your medical team prior to your surgery or other procedure in order to lead the parade when it comes to how you will be treated. It’s called informed consent. Most healthcare providers are not big fans. Most patients do not even know it exists. That’s the way the owners of U.S. healthcare (profit-making doctors’ practices, for-profit and non-profit hospitals, corporate-owned emergency rooms and ambulance services) like it. Talking to patients takes time away from a busy doctor’s ability to do his primary job — hauling in more revenue. Patients are trained to believe that the doctor knows best. The facts tell a different story. Medical errors (aka death by doctor) are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Unlike the sellers of other products and services, the purveyors of healthcare have taken it upon themselves to dictate how you are treated with virtually no governmental oversight. Find out how Americans have surrendered hegemony over their body parts to healthcare corporate capitalists and why this is a catastrophic move in “Patients on the Losing End When Healthcare Becomes a Business”
