Mismanaged care : how corporate medicine jeopardizes your health /
Drawing on over thirty years' experience in internal medicine, Dr. Michael E. Makover, a medical professor and practicing physician in internal medicine, speaks out for an ethical and caring tradition that has been endangered by current practices. In Mismanaged Care: How Corporate Medicine Jeop...
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Amherst, N.Y. :
Prometheus Books,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The Rationale for the Managed Care Revolution
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Good Doctor: What Medical Care Should Be
- 3. From Hippocrates to "Providers": How Healers and Caregivers Became Product Sellers
- 4. Captured by Stealth: How American Business Stole Medicine
- 5. Has Managed Care Succeeded?: Slap! We Needed That. Or Did We?
- 6. What's Wrong with Managed Care and Government Control of Medicine?
- 7. More Ways in Which Managed Care Impairs Your Relationship with Your Doctor
- 8. Privacy
- 9. Does Managed Care Fulfill Its Promise to Preserve Quality of Care While Reducing Cost?
- 10. How Medicine Is Affected by Legal and Ethical Trends in Practice
- 11. How Managed Care Bypasses, Controls, and Limits Doctors to Save Money and Why You Pay the Price
- 12. Issues
- 13. The Lure of Single-Payer Health Plans and Why They Will Not Work Here
- 14. A Better Way
- App. How to Make the Most of an HMO, If You Must Be in One.