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lawfully engage in the practice of medicine, and the great weight
of authority is that neither a corporation nor any unlicensed entity may engage in the healing arts through licensed employees.”
However, statements published in 1993 and 1995 by the Kentucky
Board of Medical Licensure clearly sanction physicians as full
time employees of hospitals. The AMA Code of Ethics only briefly
addresses the issue in Section 4.6.
The supposed cause of the decline of private practice and the
employment of physicians is their own shortcomings as business
people in an environment of over-regulation, rising practice expenses, and decreased payments. (The question of physician greed
is too odious to address here.) While larger organizations my have
some advantages in contracting, I have yet to see evidence that
hospitals run more efficient outpatient practices than physicians,
and the contracting advantages only add to rising cost without
concomitant improvemen