The king of France, Charles VIII, who was marching from Pisa to Florence at the time (he would take the city on the day of Pico's death) dispatched his own physicians to tend to the great mind of the age.
The legislation would also require the establishment of an online public database that patients could search, to see if their own physicians had been paid by the companies whose products the doctors prescribed.
To escape having to choose between their patients' interests and their own, physicians who perform abortions around the country now are taking steps to ensure that doctors won't find themselves accidentally allowing a live fetus to be partially "born" in the course of a second trimester abortion.
The Germans, too, were hampered by a refusal to collect from non-Aryans, a policy that "eventually frustrated even their own physicians," according to the journalist Douglas Starr, whose book "Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce" details this history.
Patients hate to accept edicts from health plans about what is and isn't covered, but they're much more responsive to recommendations from their own physicians.
Since patients were not able to get timely appointments to see their own physicians, they resorted to seeking care in emergency rooms.
