Oh, John, have you read nothing? It doesn't have to be either/or. There are always more than two solutions. Folks have posted plenty of examples of how docs made the transition, still kept their private practices, etc.

I agree with you about the medical ads; people self-diagnose according to the television ads they see and hear. I wrote an editorial about it years ago when they first started allowing prescription drug ads. I wish they would ban them, again.

Not all alternative medicine is quackery.