SPOTLIGHT: The dangers of a corporate practice

The dangers of a corporate practice
In response to rising healthcare costs, lower salaries and increased demands on their time, many doctors have turned their offices into corporate practices. In this model nurses and assistants spend more time with the patients, giving patients less access to the doctors. Columnist Saul Friedman as well as many physicians say that the corporate practice has many flaws, including incorrect diagnoses, unnecessary trips to specialists and lower overall quality of care. Column