CORPORATE THREAT TO ACADEMIC MEDICINE
To restore balance, academic medical centers should refocus on education, research, and public service; protect trainees from purely profit-driven pressures; and promote physician-leaders who remain directly engaged in patient care and teaching.
More than a century after the Flexner Report warned about commercialization in medicine, business priorities again threaten to overshadow the core mission of academic medicine: patient care, education, and scientific discovery.
