Screen LibraryFlatlined：resuscitating American medicine
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Rutgers University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Brunswick, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 322 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780813544281 (alk. paper) 0813544289 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | R199 |
| CLC: | R199.712 |
| Call Number: | R199.712/C639 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-311) and index. Not business as usual -- Unreliable emergency services -- An eroding infrastructure -- Fifteen years lost -- Handed health care's leftovers -- Where we are headed -- Thirty percent waste-or fifty? -- Poor quality primary care -- Dangerous hospitals -- Violation of dignity: the end of life -- Unnecessary surgery -- Perverse payment incentives -- Three pathways to hospital profitability -- Pharmaceuticals: remarkable innovation, shameless puffery -- Private health insurance: no added value -- Three options for covering the uninsured -- No coverage expansion without cost control -- A workable p |