Severed trust : why American medicine hasn't been fixed / George D. Lundberg, with James Stacey.
Record details
- ISBN: 0465042910
- Physical Description: pages ; cm
- Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Basic Books, 2001.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: A Medical Memoir 1 -- 1 Enemy Is Us: Why Medical Care Costs So Much and What We Can Do About It 17 -- 2 Question of Queues: Why We Have to Ration Care 49 -- 3 Coverage Circus: Why What You Need Is Not Always What You Get 77 -- 4 There Is No Alternative to Medicine: Why People Buy Care Wherever They Find It 105 -- 5 Mouse Calls for House Calls: The Benefits, Deficits, and Promotion of Internet Care 127 -- 6 A Terminal Profession: Why Medicine Is Under Attack 155 -- 7 Uninformed Consent: When Disclosure Is Incomplete, Misleading, or Nonexistent 185 -- 8 Disclosures on Death: Why Doctors Should Help Patients Die 217 -- 9 Search for Quality: It All Begins on the Autopsy Table 245 -- 10 Way to Reform: Thinking About a Better System 271 -- Epilogue: International Health Care Reform 295. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1240L Lexile |
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| Subject: | Medical care, Cost of > United States. Medical care > United States. Medical policy > United States. Public health > United States. Social medicine > United States. Medical care. |
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