title: [Stock based medicine: the patient waiting in a weary medical procedure].
abstract: This essay attempts to bring on a new perspective for healthcare professionals regarding the problems that surround this institutionalized profession, based on a system of stock balances and not on the real needs of patients and their community. The healthcare professional not only engages in biomedical healing but also possesses knowledge and expertise regarding the dialectical process of health/disease. Thus, his or her practice and actions should be centered on social practices and not just the healing process.
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitario Amecameca, Universidad Autónoma, de Estado de México, México; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Estado de México Oriente, México. Address: Carretera Amecameca Ayapango Km 2.5, Colonia. Centro C.P. 56900, México. Email: capo730211@yahoo.es.
authors.forename: Donovan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Casas Patiño
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitario Amecameca, Universidad Autónoma, de Estado de México, México; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Estado de México Oriente, México.
authors.forename: Alejandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodriguez Torres
authors.affiliation: Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico D.F. , México.
authors.forename: Isaac
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Casas Patiño
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D024382:Professional Role
keywords: availability of health services; health policy; patient care management; physicians practice patterns; social determinants of health