JAMA Watch Jan. 4, 2012: I read what the AMA is writing so you won't have to.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. "Professional organization." Your term. The "professions"---medicine, clergy, law, military

are supposed to place the interests and welfare of the people they serve above their own. They are supposed to enforce high standards among their own members. They are supposed...

You know the drill.

Unfortunately, capitalism in America has corrupted all four of these professions. We get million dollar tel-evangelists in TV churches. We get generals who order crap body armor for their troops from companies that promise them high paying executives positions once they retire from the military. We get lawyers who will sniff presidential panties and say that torture is Constitutional for a promise of career advancement. And we get doctors who will arthroscope any knee that crosses their path. And the American system which rewards wealth and those who pursue it just sort of grins and winks.