Retainer medicine and the public good

An argument that concierge medicine is the only way to serve the public good:

To argue that retainer-style medicine – or indeed, any innovation that somehow restores both the professional integrity of medical practice and the patient’s rightful advocate – is unethical is completely wrong. It is one of the few viable pathways toward restoring the foundational (but currently obsolete) medical ethic of always placing the patient first.