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Central Map ..... Initial Map ..... USA Map ..... Australian Map ..... International Map ..... Corporate Practices Map

INITIAL MAP

This map provides links to two housekeeping pages, an introductory one and a concluding one.

The intoductory page allows exploration of the site starting with some ideas about how we can make sense of what is happening and then linking to pages which illustrate the concepts. Those with some interest in social processes might follow this path.

Alternately exploration can commence by following my own path as I came to blows with Tenet/NME and then followed the trail into corporate misbehaviour and tried to understand how all this happened. This will be of most interest to those interested in whistle blowing or dissent.

 


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Disclaimer Limits and difficulties in disclosing information (Created 4/00 Last update 2/04)

History of the site :: What started as a whistleblowing site has become a dissenting site (Created 4/00 Last update 10/07)

INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE MEDICINE WEB PAGES
With many hundreds of pages readers on the site were coming upon web pages and reading them out of context, not realising what they were about. Background information was scattered and not easy to find. Some even thought they were being libeled or that I was being vindictive. It was simply not possible to write an introduction to every page on the site. This page is a general introduction to company web pages and will eventually link from the top of every company page.The page examines some of the problems in developing a site of this nature. It summarises the thrust of the arguments on the web site and stresses the importance of the issues at stake. It creates a context for the web pages. (Created 5/07 Last update 6/07)

 

Coming to grips with Corporate Medicine
This page summarises the section.

Many of these pages in turn link to pages in other sections which illustrate the arguments made.

Nay Corporate Medicine
A short 600 word invited article published in 2003 which brings the problems in corporate medicine together. A good place for everyone to start. (Created 8/03)

Belief Versus Reality in Reforming Health Care (pdf file)
A paper "Belief Versus Reality in Reforming Health Care"contrasting for-profit with not-for-profit health care is to be published in the August 2005 edition of "Health Issues" and may be available on their web site in due course (8/05)

Different Medical Systems
This page briefly traces the early history of medicine into the 20th and the 21st century. It looks at the development of marketplace medicine and the recent targeting of the sector by private equity. It explains the essential difference between the various systems. (Created 4/00 Last update 10/07)

Understanding Corporate Medicine
This page examines the inadequacy of our current understanding of corporatised health care and then develops an alternative theoretical framework. (Created 8/00 Update 8/03)

Personality and Success
Entitled "Sociopathy", this page looks at the sort of people who succeed in a competitive corporate system and the culture which develops. (Created 1/01 Last Update 1/06)

Rationing in Australian health care services
There was much talk about health care rationing in the 1990s. This is a response to an editorial in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA). This letter, making points about the corporate threat, was published in the MJA in June 1998. (6/98)

Senate Submission re private equity(pdf file 659 KB)
Private equity is sweeping the world and is buying up some of the largest hospital and nursing home groups in the USA and Australia. In 2007 I made a submission to the senate economic committee that examined the marketplace in health and aged care, and looked at the social implications of the move to private equity. (5/07)

Australia's Experience with Health Reform: Are there lessons for Canadians? (pdf file)
In October 2004 I was invited to speak to groups of Canadians in Alberta, Canada. I provided them with a longer background paper which is on the web site of the Alberta Consumers Association as a pdf file. This explores the nature of for profit health care in the USA and Australia. It examines the ideological basis for the development and application of market principles.(11/04)

 

Looking to the Future

These web oages are not about devising some new health system or promoting another model of care. It looks at the failure of corporate market medicine, why it has failed and what the processes at work are. It criticises models built on ideology. The Canadian Colleen Fuller's contention that we have taken the wrong road and should try another is strongly supported. I have used the insights and experiences gained in writing these pages to suggests understandings and directions which we might try in looking for a road which gives a greater chance of success. The next page is really the final page of the web site but there is nowhere else to put it on the map. It builds on the previous pages.

Lessons for the Future : I tried to look at what has happened and at the understandings I have developed as I wrote all these web pages in order to make some suggestions for a different sort of health system in the future - a different road to try.

  • Theoretical Grounding - I look at some of the global events and writings which have influenced my perceptions of the health care marketplace and of how we might move ahead more sensibly.
 

 

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Personal Story
This page gives an outlne of how my personal challenge to one company, Tenet/NME progressed to my challenging corporate medicine in Australia and internationally. Whistle blowing moves to dissent.

 

 

 

 

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Personal Background
Short account of past experience

Blowing the whistle Tenet/NME
The battle to eject Tenet/NME from Australia - a more detailed personal account

A DISSENTING VIEW OF HEALTH AND AGED CARE CORPORATISATION : CONFRONTING SUN HEALTHCARE IN AUSTRALIA 1997-2001
This page examines the ideological conflict. It describes the efforts I made during the years following Columbia/HCA's departure in 1997 to confront the introduction of competitive corporate health care and to force Australian authorities to address the problems. Much of the material relates to Sun Healthcare's conduct and my efforts to have it ejected from Australia. The page provides links to a representative selection of some of the letters and reviews I wrote.

The battle to introduce managed care was in progress and doctors were resisting. I believed that US managed care corporations would be brought in to control them.

The inappropriateness of market ideological solutions for health care was repeatedly emphasised. The letters and criticisms I wrote expand on the issues.

 
LINKS TO MAPS
Central Map ..... Initial Map ..... USA Map ..... Australian Map ..... International Map ..... Corporate Practices Map
This page created June 2004 by Michael Wynne
Minor Revisions July 2007