Int J Health Serv
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Corporatization of health care is dramatically transforming the medical workplace and profoundly altering the everyday work of the doctor. In this article, the authors discuss recent changes in U. S. health care and their impact on doctoring, and outline the major theoretical explanations of the social transformation of medical work under advanced capitalism. ⋯ S. experience, no country or health system can be considered immune. Indeed, U. S. experience may be instructive for doctors and health care researchers in other national settings as to what they may expect.