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Critical condition : how health care in America became big business-- and bad medicine
- Title
- Critical condition : how health care in America became big business-- and bad medicine / Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele.
- Author
- Barlett, Donald L.
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, 2004.
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Steele, James B.
- Description
- vi, 279 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Offers an exposé of America's health-care system, profiling the hospitals, doctors, and patients that have become trapped by the system, while the HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and nursing home operators are reaping enormous profits.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : the crisis -- 1. A second-rate system -- Rampant overcharging -- Without a safety net -- A teacher learns a lesson -- Spending more for less -- Watchdog for the drug companies -- Emergency in the ER -- America's unknown killer -- Favors and fraud -- Politics and profits -- 2. Wall Street medicine -- How profit became policy -- Selling the hospitals -- Corporate culture -- Buying the doctors -- Nurses who battle the bottom line -- 3. Anatomy of a systems failure -- A bad business model -- Doctor C's empire -- Meltdown -- Vanishing histories -- 4. The labyrinth of care -- The new bureaucrats -- Overruling the physicians -- The wrong jobs -- The insurers' secret codes -- Long-distance diagnosis -- Online and offshore -- 5. Madison Avenue medicine -- Blame it on bad breath -- The TV ad blitz -- "Ask your doctor" -- Risky business -- The celebrity pitch -- Your next drugs -- 6. The remedy -- Curing the ills -- Crisis and opportunity -- Epilogue : medicine in the media.
- ISBN
- 0385504543
- 9780385504546
- LCCN
- 2004055288
- OCLC
- ocm55885435
- 55885435
- SCSB-5805586
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries