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May 31, 2000

Snip, snip, lawsuit

Unkind cuts for nosy columnists

A hospital is a silly idea really - gathering invalids in one place to share their diseases. The other problem is that it's also a sort of bureaucratic petri dish, a growth culture for administrators and accountants. As they spawn, these specimens try to apply rigorous market principles in an entirely inappropriate field.An efficient health system would mean no-one was ill, and there would be no need - or at least a considerably reduced need - for hospitals, doctors, nurses and administrators,

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