Part III: Healthcare Systems

Approximately 50 years ago, when I was a much younger man, health care was much simpler than today. Today, irrespective of the discipline and at all levels and around the world, health care is becoming much more complex. For example, what we had 50 years ago were general practitioners, who mainly diagnosed based on experience, dispensed pills , wrote prescriptions and practiced from a privately owned location (e. g. house), did not have a support staff beyond a wife who was generally the nurse ,bookkeeper, mail clerk and the office staff. He subscribed to a single journal, called specialists (who worked on particular body systems in a hospital somewhere) when in