Medical Guilds are Bad Medicine

Monopolies, Oligarchy, Elitism, Authoritarianism and Groupthink are hurting patients, driving up costs, blocking innovation, and trampling civil rights

The medieval Guilds and the modern medical boards and societies share the same soul: an oligopoly draped in moral virtue. Both arose from the belief that unregulated chaos harms people, but both evolved into self-sealing monopolies that suppress creative dissent, alternative innovation, and independent thought.

Reforming medicine today demands what once broke guilds centuries ago — transparency, open access, and freedom to practice without institutional permission. If today’s Medical Guilds will not reform themselves, then governmental organizations, such as Congress, the judiciary, or HHS, will step in. To some extent, this is already happening to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Furthermore, transformational technologies like Artificial Intelligence and “Big Data” analytics will replace the current medical guilds, much as the Industrial Revolution destroyed the power of the Medieval Guilds.https://www.malone.news/p/medical-guilds-are-bad-medicine