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The End Of Golden Age Of Doctoring

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Bureaucratization of Doctoring profession.

The restricting or, in other words, the transformation of state-owned hospitals is a major

factor in changing the medical profession. There is no freedom in the medical profession like in

the past decades. Although most healthcare workers can tolerate the loss of administrative

autonomy, losing clinical autonomy is not received diligently by most auctioneers. For example,

nowadays, decisions about what is going to happen and how the healthcare system is going to

run are made by other people outside the medical profession. For example, the salary of the

healthcare auctioneers is discussed and determined by the government, with minimum

involvement of the doctors themselves.

Increasingly Crowded Profession

Initially, the medical profession was prestigious, where doctors and nurses had their

unique situations and characteristics. The legality of the medicinal vocation was done via

government licensing, and no other group of healthcare providers could legally execute certain

chores. In the last few years, however, they have saw the emergence of more legitimate and

powerful groups such as the Non-physician clinicians, which have threatened the freedom of the

health providers (McKinlay, J. B., & Marceau 2002) The flooding of the profession and

increased competition have led to changes in the medical profession.

Globalization and information revolution

Information revolution and globalization are much responsible for the numerous altering

of the doctors' position across the globe. For example, the increasingly pervasive use of the

internet has empowered the patients by providing valued health data has undermined the key

aspects of the physicians' authority. In the past decades, legal actions against health providers
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who malpractice in their line of work was based on the oral testimonies of those involved while

nowadays the use of computers in record-keeping provides records of everything that has

happened when patient and doctors encounter.

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References
McKinlay, J. B., & Marceau, L. D. (2002). The end of the golden age of doctoring. International

Journal of Health Services, 32(2), 379-416.