Five physicians will describe the current condition of the practice of medicine in the United States. They will demonstrate how a steady diet of the wrong ideas is crippling the profession by driving it toward a socialized system. They will explain how this represents a threat to the Individual patient and why physicians are allowing it to happen and even assisting in the process-despite the obvious failure of socialized medicine In other countries. Topics will include a discussion of the concept of health care as a "right," the escalation of medical costs, the "AIDS crisis," and other adverse effects of government Intrusion and coercive legislation. They will give specific recommendations for how to reverse the present destructive trends in medicine and show why the goal of Increased access to affordable high-quality health care can only be achieved in a free, capitalist system.