Ex-Soviet doc bemoans ‘Sovietization’ of American medicine

Beth Israel endocrinology chief Leonid Poretsky writes:
After the demise of the Soviet Union, former Soviet citizens are able, like patients suffering from allergic disorders, to detect in their present conditions the circumstances that remind them of their experience in the Soviet Union.
As one of these “survivors” who is now an academic physician in New York, I am sensitive to those features of today’s medicine in the United States that are heavily reminiscent of the life “back in the USSR” and that I describe collectively using the term “Sovietization.”2 This term refers primarily to the ever-increasing levels of bureaucratization and propaganda that, as I will attempt to show, threaten the integrity of American medicine.
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