Dec 27, 2009

Middlemarch | Compare and Contrast

1832: Doctors are not paid for their time and their services. Rather, their income derives from the profits they obtain through selling drugs.

Today: Doctors charge for their time, their services, and their medical opinions. Patients obtain medicine with a doctor's prescription from a licensed pharmacy. In addition, in the United States, pharmaceutical companies advertise directly to consumers, and their sales representatives canvass doctors' offices, distributing free samples of new drugs to be given out to patients.
1832: A candidate with...