Synthesis

(Last Part of Stateside Healthcare: Art, Science, and Commerce?)

Even with the professional capabilities, technical considerations, and scientific advances of medical practice in the clinical setting, a US physician cannot dissociate him/herself from the material realities of cost and production in healthcare delivery.

What is important is that no matter how strong the market forces are across all team players in US healthcare, the eons-old goal of healing the patient – the art and science, not commerce – of medicine, should never be forgotten.