Gilette Stadium. TD Banknorth Garden. Lincoln Financial Field. The Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield College of Public Health.
Is corporate sponsorship of hospitals and medical schools next?
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BTW, the first FOR-PROFIT medical school in over 80 years since the Abraham Flexner report is being opened in Colorado as we speak (Rocky Vista)
God help us all….
nothing wrong with corporate sponsorship.
After all there is the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences….
Anon 5:39 pm – Good news. It is time to keep the good that came with the Flexner Report while repealing the anti-competitive measures. This is a good first step.
Well, they sponsor you . . . yes?
Sure, why not. We all know that corporate ethics and the uneroded professionalism of medicine is far too strong for it to be a problem. I am completely confident that at the Pfizer School of Medicine, there will be no slant whatsoever favoring the treatments that feed their profits.
No more of a problem than what we have today with various providers shuttling patients into their own surgery centers or radiological facilities in order to enhance their bottom lines.
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