Medical-Industrial Complex: Profit Over People

Medical-Industrial Complex: Profit Over People

The medical-industrial complex (MIC) refers to the network of interactions between pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, hospitals, insurance companies, and other entities that prioritize profit over patient care. Coined in the 1970s, the term draws from Eisenhower’s “military-industrial complex,” highlighting how healthcare has become a massive, profit-driven industry. It encompasses big pharma, medical device manufacturers, for-profit […]

The Recent War Against “Gender Affirming Care”

The Recent War Against “Gender Affirming Care”

Paediatric gender dysphoria has rapidly emerged as one of the most divisive and urgent issues in medicine today. In the past decade, the number of children and adolescents identifying as transgender or nonbinary has soared. In the US alone, diagnoses among youth aged 6 to 17 nearly tripled from around 15,000 in 2017 to over […]