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How people power and business reshaped modern medicine
Original: How ‘people power’ and business transformed medicine, but created a whole new set of risks
A new analysis traces how patient activism and commercial forces transformed medicine over recent decades, delivering major advances while introducing fresh risks. It argues that demands for patient rights pushed treatments forward, but growing business involvement in healthcare has brought new concerns over costs, conflicts of interest and unequal access to care.
Why now: Readers are engaging with a timely reflection on whether the commercialisation of healthcare is undermining the gains won by patient movements.
The Conversationhealthcare industrypatient advocacy movements
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- How ‘people power’ and business transformed medicine, but created a whole new set of risks · The Conversation
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