Commercialised medicineSir,Helen Spring’s timely article (News Weekly, November 4) confronts the Australian community with an unpalatable truth: the erosion by commercialised medicine of the principle that patients (adults and children) have a right to access medical treatment that serves the patient’s best interest.She draws a frightening link between the current situation in the USA and Australia. In the USA, psychiatry’s peak body, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), has become …
