An American sickness : how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back / Elisabeth R...
An American sickness : how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back / Elisabeth R...
An American sickness : how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back / Elisabeth Rosenthal.
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New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
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G 2017/6249
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English
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Physical content
406 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Complaint: Unaffordable healthcare -- Part I: History of the present illness and review of systems. The age of insurance ; The age of hospitals ; The age of physicians ; The age of pharmaceuticals ; The age of medical devices ; The age of testing and ancillary services ; The age of contractors : bil...
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New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems.
"At a moment of drastic political upheaval, a shocking investigation into the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, as well as solutions to its myriad of problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical sy...
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An American sickness : how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back / Elisabeth Rosenthal.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-392) and index.
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G 2017/6249
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74VKVG6Dgwm3
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ISBN
9781594206757 hardcover
1594206759 hardcover
DDC
362.10973
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991024151113802626
