Doctors have relinquished their power and have been complacent while the medical industrial complex has seized the intitiative, not just in the halls of Congress, but in their examining rooms as well.

I can remember walking to elementary school and passing several solo doctor offices with  a shingle hanging on a post in the front. They were usually modest offices in the ground floor of another residential building or store front and they served as a convenient community resource. Most were solo general practitioners who had affiliations with community hospitals if you needed in patient care. Now, shingles are relics of a bygone past and, rather, are more likely to be seen on a direct to consumer advertisement, trying to convince you to get vaccinated against the disease if you had chickenpox.