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The modern healthcare system has transformed the physician-patient relationship from a moral commitment based on trust into a commodified transaction driven by market logic, resulting in the erosion of trust and the reproduction of social inequalities. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To analyze how the expansion of market mechanisms, instrumental rationality, and commodity fetishism has transformed the physician-patient relationship from an ethical partnership into a commercial transaction.

August 27, 2026Open Access

Prescription for Profit; The Narrative of Fetishism in the Healthcare System

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MCmohammad Amin chahardoli

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Sociological analysis demonstrates the commodification of modern medical care, highlighting the erosion of therapeutic trust and dignity under market-driven institutional pressures.

Key Points

To analyze how the expansion of market mechanisms, instrumental rationality, and commodity fetishism has transformed the physician-patient relationship from an ethical partnership into a commercial transaction.
Conducted a theoretical sociological critique applying analytical frameworks from Max Weber, Karl Marx, Georg Lukács, Thorstein Veblen, Anthony Giddens, and Talcott Parsons.
Evaluated systemic clinical phenomena, including visit-time optimization, unnecessary diagnostic testing, physician branding, and the erosion of social trust in modern healthcare institutions.
Demonstrated that defining efficiency purely through visit duration and revenue generation alienates physicians from their practice and reduces patients from suffering individuals to passive medical consumers.
Showed that market-driven practices, including non-therapeutic procedures and conspicuous consumption, deepen socioeconomic disparities and transform the mutual therapeutic bond into mutual suspicion.
Concluded that restoring human dignity and clinical efficacy requires restraining market-based healthcare incentives and reaffirming health as an inalienable human right.

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mohammad Amin chahardoli (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8fea3310c91c1e926224a3 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22099226

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August 27, 2026Open Access

Prescription for Profit; The Narrative of Fetishism in the Healthcare System

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Authors

MCmohammad Amin chahardoli

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Overview

Sociological analysis demonstrates the commodification of modern medical care, highlighting the erosion of therapeutic trust and dignity under market-driven institutional pressures.

Key Points

To analyze how the expansion of market mechanisms, instrumental rationality, and commodity fetishism has transformed the physician-patient relationship from an ethical partnership into a commercial transaction.
Conducted a theoretical sociological critique applying analytical frameworks from Max Weber, Karl Marx, Georg Lukács, Thorstein Veblen, Anthony Giddens, and Talcott Parsons.
Evaluated systemic clinical phenomena, including visit-time optimization, unnecessary diagnostic testing, physician branding, and the erosion of social trust in modern healthcare institutions.
Demonstrated that defining efficiency purely through visit duration and revenue generation alienates physicians from their practice and reduces patients from suffering individuals to passive medical consumers.
Showed that market-driven practices, including non-therapeutic procedures and conspicuous consumption, deepen socioeconomic disparities and transform the mutual therapeutic bond into mutual suspicion.
Concluded that restoring human dignity and clinical efficacy requires restraining market-based healthcare incentives and reaffirming health as an inalienable human right.

Cite This Study

mohammad Amin chahardoli (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8fea3310c91c1e926224a3 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22099226

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