The Engineered Crisis: Communication Breakdown Between Doctors and Nurses as a Structural Strategy of Power, Profit, and Control in Modern Healthcare

The Engineered Crisis

The persistent communication crisis between doctors and nurses has long been framed as the result of interpersonal tensions, professional hierarchies, or inadequate training. This paper argues that such explanations are insufficient and obscure the deeper political and economic forces shaping contemporary healthcare. Drawing on sociological, anthropological, and critical-theory perspectives, this study contends that communication failures are not incidental but systematically produced by the organizational structures of modern healthcare, particularly within corporatized and administratively dominated institutions.