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May 24, 2026Open Access

The Inverted Pillars: How the Business-Medicine Fusion Negated the Foundations of Medical Ethics

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Argues that market forces have inverted key medical ethics principles, suggesting a need for systemic change.

Key Points

  • This paper seeks to examine how the intersection of business and medicine has undermined traditional medical ethics.
  • Analyzes biomedical ethics principles like Beneficence and Autonomy against the backdrop of market capitalism.
  • Explores the structural implications of compliance on the physician-patient relationship.
  • Utilizes documented cases of patient abandonment to illustrate ethical violations.
  • Identifies compliance as a fifth ethical principle that disrupts the four classical pillars of medical ethics.
  • Demonstrates that legal compliance has become the operative measure, undermining the foundational moral standards established by historical documents.
  • Offers a five-point prescription for restoring the core ethical principles in medical practice.

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Brian Lynch (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a12965848a0ea16656731f5https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20348690
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