Something is wrong.
When I ride my bike to work, I have to wend my way through the towering colossi of medical buildings along Francis Street in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area. The tower cranes are constructing new clinical spaces, bigger hospital wings, offices, outpatient clinics, all built in the name of better care for patients, but they also happen to boost the bottom line. In this town, maybe more than any other in the U.S., you can literally feel the thrum of the medical industrial complex.
