Moreover, the high-technology nature of modern medical spending has given rise to a powerful medical-industrial complex that seeks to influence doctors' decisions.

I jog past a large hospital, ambulances pulling in and out, people walking and driving in a daze induced by the medical-industrial complex.

You won't see as many progressive initiatives that take on the medical-industrial complex.

Dr. Relman, for instance, wrote editorials criticizing the medical-industrial complex, medical practiceand social and economic issues that drew praise from many.

The Tiefer debate presumes that these medical inventions will stay under the strict control of doctors, that the old rules of the medical-industrial complex still apply.

The economic logic of the medical-industrial complex is straightforward.

Economic trends gave rise to the medical-industrial complex, but only because those trends interacted with bad policies, which can be fixed.

By this I mean a view of our challenges that doesn't reflect the narrow agenda of business or labor, or the medical-industrial complex.

For 18 frustrating years, they have watched an enormous medical-industrial complex, including six government hospitals, being created in their name.

The secret of caring for the patient does not lie solely in technological innovations or in more medical-industrial complexes.