Private Medical Practice and the National Health Service

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Abstract
The essence of private medical practice lies in the nature of the relationship between patients and their physicians. In its most simple form this relationship is characterized by patients' making their own choice of doctors, establishing a direct contract with them, and being responsible for meeting their professional fees and other medical or surgical expenses.The intervention of a third party, in the form either of some type of national health service or of an insurance carrier, has modified the relationship so that the distinction between public and private patients is less clear than before.However, as Iglehart1 , 2 has pointed . . .

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