Putting a Price on Compassion - NYTimes.com

Putting a Price on Compassion - NYTimes.com: "Last Thursday, The New England Journal of Medicine published an opinion piece titled “Money and the Changing Culture of Medicine.” The authors, Dr. Pamela Hartzband and Dr. Jerome Groopman, argue that the current drive to fit health care into a business framework has resulted in a loss of medicine’s communal and compassionate aspects."