Corporatization (or privatization) of medicine carries with the risk of depersonalization. Due to the pressures of business (productivity, regulatory paperwork, bureaucracy, regulations), nurses begin to feel like cogs in a machine rather than care-providers. And because of the shift in focus from patients to productivity, patients end up being treated less as people and more as objects. When care is no longer the main focus of an institution, but is relegated to one of many concerns, tasks compete for nurses' time. Inevitably, the harsh realities of business force nurses to spend more time attending to the bottom line than to the needs of their patients.

Corporatization is here to stay. So we ought to do everything in our power to not let healthcare-providers become buried under jobs that take them away from their most important role.