The Hippocratic myth : why doctors are under pressure to ration care, practice politics, and comprom...
The Hippocratic myth : why doctors are under pressure to ration care, practice politics, and comprom...
The Hippocratic myth : why doctors are under pressure to ration care, practice politics, and compromise their promise to heal / M. Gregg Bloche.
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N362.1042/51
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English
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Physical content
viii, 264 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Hippocrates' myth -- Cutting costs and keeping faith -- Stakeholders, wonks, and the setting of limits -- Politics, morals, and medical need I: PTSD -- Politics, morals, and medical need II: Mobilizing shared resources -- Setting limits by consent -- Doctors as warriors I: America's fr...
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Publisher
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2011.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Hippocratic Oath--United States
- Health Care Costs--United States
- Health Care Rationing--ethics--United States
- Physician's Role--United States
- Physician-Patient Relations--United States
- Quality of Health Care--ethics--United States
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Summary
"When we're ill, we put our trust in doctors who promise to put our well-being first and pledge to do us no harm. But medicine's expanding capabilities and soaring costs threaten to make this commitment obsolete. Increasingly, warns Gregg Bloche, society is calling upon physicians to ration care and to put their skills to use on behalf of insurance...
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The Hippocratic myth : why doctors are under pressure to ration care, practice politics, and compromise their promise to heal / M. Gregg Bloche.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-260) and index.
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N362.1042/51
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0230603734 (hbk.)
9780230603738 (hbk.)
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362.1042
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991006095319702626
