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- catalog abstract "The American Medical Association has played a key role during the past century in defining what health care is and how it is delivered in the United States. Now, as the nation tackles reform of the inefficient, costly, and often inaccessible health-care system that the AMA helped build, this powerful doctors' lobby once again is asserting its influence. In The Serpent on the Staff, award-winning Chicago Sun-Times reporters Howard Wolinsky and Tom Brune present a critical dissection of the AMA, issue by issue, showing how the nation's best-known physicians organization has time and again acted more as protector of doctors' wealth than as guardian of the public's health. For the past decade Wolinsky has covered the AMA more aggressively than any other reporter in the country. In 1989 he teamed up with investigative reporter Brune to expose a financial scandal that led to the resignation of the AMA's chief executive. Based on years of interviews and painstaking research into private and government files and internal AMA documents, The Serpent on the Staff reveals an array of disquieting decisions and public positions taken by the AMA: how it spends millions of dollars to influence politicians and sway public opinion to stall health-care reform; how it succeeded in turning Medicare into a financial windfall for doctors, and how it fights to keep it that way; how it delayed joining the crusade against smoking because of its long, close association with tobacco interests; how it attempts to block competing health professions, such as chiropractic and osteopathy in the past and nursing today; and how it fumbled the nation's public policy concerning AIDS.".
- catalog contributor b6066223.
- catalog contributor b6066224.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "American doctors' association: Looking after medicine's special interests -- Fighting 'The Inevitable': Stopping national health insurance at all costs -- License to make money: Turning Medicare into a cash cow -- Deep pockets: Buying time and clout in Washington -- Principles for profits: Keeping medicine's business ethic alive -- Medical monopoly: Waging war on alternative medicine -- Smoking gun: Playing politics with tobacco and the public's health -- A doctor's right to choose: Putting physican choice first in the abortion crisis -- Political science vs. medical science: Bungling health policy on the AIDS epidemic.".
- catalog description "Based on years of interviews and painstaking research into private and government files and internal AMA documents, The Serpent on the Staff reveals an array of disquieting decisions and public positions taken by the AMA: how it spends millions of dollars to influence politicians and sway public opinion to stall health-care reform; how it succeeded in turning Medicare into a financial windfall for doctors, and how it fights to keep it that way; how it delayed joining the crusade against smoking because of its long, close association with tobacco interests; how it attempts to block competing health professions, such as chiropractic and osteopathy in the past and nursing today; and how it fumbled the nation's public policy concerning AIDS.".
- catalog description "In 1989 he teamed up with investigative reporter Brune to expose a financial scandal that led to the resignation of the AMA's chief executive.".
- catalog description "In The Serpent on the Staff, award-winning Chicago Sun-Times reporters Howard Wolinsky and Tom Brune present a critical dissection of the AMA, issue by issue, showing how the nation's best-known physicians organization has time and again acted more as protector of doctors' wealth than as guardian of the public's health. For the past decade Wolinsky has covered the AMA more aggressively than any other reporter in the country.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-257) and index.".
- catalog description "The American Medical Association has played a key role during the past century in defining what health care is and how it is delivered in the United States. Now, as the nation tackles reform of the inefficient, costly, and often inaccessible health-care system that the AMA helped build, this powerful doctors' lobby once again is asserting its influence.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 267 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Serpent on the staff.".
- catalog identifier "0874777542 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Serpent on the staff.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,".
- catalog relation "Serpent on the staff.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1994 G-871".
- catalog subject "610/.6/073 20".
- catalog subject "American Medical Association.".
- catalog subject "Lobbying United States.".
- catalog subject "Lobbying.".
- catalog subject "Politics United States.".
- catalog subject "Politics".
- catalog subject "R15.A55 W58 1994".
- catalog subject "Societies, Medical United States.".
- catalog subject "Societies, Medical".
- catalog subject "WB 1 AA1 W8s 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "American doctors' association: Looking after medicine's special interests -- Fighting 'The Inevitable': Stopping national health insurance at all costs -- License to make money: Turning Medicare into a cash cow -- Deep pockets: Buying time and clout in Washington -- Principles for profits: Keeping medicine's business ethic alive -- Medical monopoly: Waging war on alternative medicine -- Smoking gun: Playing politics with tobacco and the public's health -- A doctor's right to choose: Putting physican choice first in the abortion crisis -- Political science vs. medical science: Bungling health policy on the AIDS epidemic.".
- catalog title "The serpent on the staff : the unhealthy politics of the American Medical Association / Howard Wolinsky and Tom Brune.".
- catalog type "text".