The insatiable demands of the production line for monitoring, feedback, control, and payment distract the physician from the ill person. Industries want uniformity of method and product. Medical care is embedded in individuality.
There is only one way to return control of the patient-doctor relationship to the axis that runs between the two. It is to recover a free market in medicine.
Patients who can vote with their feet and their wallets will regulate their care. Others can only pretend to do so.
Excerpts from "Medical Information and Bureaucracy: F. A. Hayek and the Use of Medical Knowledge"
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