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At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients ... and What We Can Do About It - Couverture rigide

Waitzkin, Howard

 
9780742501317: At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients ... and What We Can Do About It
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0742501310 ISBN 13 : 9780742501317
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2001

Synopsis

In this book Dr. Waitzkin offers a comprehensive analysis of the current problems of costs, coverage, and access to medical care in the United States. He takes the reader into the examination room with vivid patient-doctor encounters that portray dilemmas patients frequently face. Dr. Waitzkin describes how changes in medical care have affected the decision making of doctors, as well as communication between patients and doctors. He offers an analysis of how spiraling costs, managed care organizations, declining coverage, and new technologies have changed the decisions and the course of care chosen.

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À propos de l'auteur

Howard Waitzkin is professor and director, Division of Community Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0742501310
ISBN 13 
9780742501317
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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