" A lot of hospitals, including this one, are owned by for-profit companies. Even the so-called nonprofit hospitals are money mills in disguise. That means there's a built-in conflict of interest situation to avoid publicizing such statistics (hospital mistakes), like so many things in health care. Hospitals don't want to talk about their shortcomings. We fledgling medical students are still under the delusion that medicine is a calling whereas, if truth be told, it is a business, a big business, and not a fair business from the public's perspective. Most everybody is mainly out to make a buck. "

― Robin Cook , Host