The Latest in Critical Care, 11/27/23 (Issue #20)

Beta-blockers for septic shock? (STRESS-L), vitamin C for Covid-19, corporate takeover of medicine

How are corporations taking over medicine despite laws against it?

To maintain the centrality of physicians in the provision of medical care, and minimize the profit motive to the extent possible, legislators in many states long ago passed laws asserting the corporate-practice-of-medicine (CPOM) doctrine. These laws prohibit non-physicians from ownership…