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- catalog abstract "Drawing on over thirty years' experience in internal medicine, Dr. Michael E. Makover, a medical professor and practicing physician in internal medicine, speaks out for an ethical and caring tradition that has been endangered by current practices. In Mismanaged Care: How Corporate Medicine Jeopardizes Your Health, he explains the rationale for managed care, which was believed to be the solution to rising medical costs and alleged failures in American medical practice, and shows why managed care has not only failed to fulfill its promise, but has actually made things worse by stressing corporate profits over patients' needs and a cost-versus-quality mentality that focuses on the bottom line. Dr. Makover shows in detail how a good doctor provides quality medical care when free of outside interference and how, by contrast, managed care violates the doctor-patient relationship and fails to deliver on the quality it promises. Dr. Makover argues eloquently and authoritatively for a return to the professionalism that puts patients' needs first, and calls for the health care debate to be taken out of the hands of politicians, businesspeople, and lawyers and given back to patients and their physicians. He examines serious ethical issues we must all face, such as how best to allocate our health resources, how much to devote to prolonging life at its end, and how to make the most of the power of computers in medicine without sacrificing our privacy. Finally, he suggests a completely new way of financing medical care, one that will give patients complete control of their treatment; extend health care coverage to the 43 million Americans, including 10 million children, who are currently uninsured; and allow natural market forces to put an end to unnecessary increases in medical costs.".
- catalog contributor b11304536.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Dr. Makover argues eloquently and authoritatively for a return to the professionalism that puts patients' needs first, and calls for the health care debate to be taken out of the hands of politicians, businesspeople, and lawyers and given back to patients and their physicians. He examines serious ethical issues we must all face, such as how best to allocate our health resources, how much to devote to prolonging life at its end, and how to make the most of the power of computers in medicine without sacrificing our privacy.".
- catalog description "Drawing on over thirty years' experience in internal medicine, Dr. Michael E. Makover, a medical professor and practicing physician in internal medicine, speaks out for an ethical and caring tradition that has been endangered by current practices. In Mismanaged Care: How Corporate Medicine Jeopardizes Your Health, he explains the rationale for managed care, which was believed to be the solution to rising medical costs and alleged failures in American medical practice, and shows why managed care has not only failed to fulfill its promise, but has actually made things worse by stressing corporate profits over patients' needs and a cost-versus-quality mentality that focuses on the bottom line. Dr.".
- catalog description "Finally, he suggests a completely new way of financing medical care, one that will give patients complete control of their treatment; extend health care coverage to the 43 million Americans, including 10 million children, who are currently uninsured; and allow natural market forces to put an end to unnecessary increases in medical costs.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and index.".
- catalog description "Makover shows in detail how a good doctor provides quality medical care when free of outside interference and how, by contrast, managed care violates the doctor-patient relationship and fails to deliver on the quality it promises.".
- catalog description "Prologue. Rationale for the Managed Care Revolution -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Good Doctor: What Medical Care Should Be -- 3. From Hippocrates to "Providers": How Healers and Caregivers Became Product Sellers -- 4. Captured by Stealth: How American Business Stole Medicine -- 5. Has Managed Care Succeeded?: Slap! We Needed That. Or Did We? -- 6. What's Wrong with Managed Care and Government Control of Medicine? -- 7. More Ways in Which Managed Care Impairs Your Relationship with Your Doctor -- 8. Privacy -- 9. Does Managed Care Fulfill Its Promise to Preserve Quality of Care While Reducing Cost? -- 10. How Medicine Is Affected by Legal and Ethical Trends in Practice.".
- catalog extent "300 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "157392248X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1999 C-772".
- catalog subject "362.1/04258/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Delivery of Health Care economics United States.".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Medical United States.".
- catalog subject "Managed Care Programs United States.".
- catalog subject "Managed care plans (Medical care) Moral and ethical aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Managed care plans (Medical care) United States.".
- catalog subject "Medical care United States Finance.".
- catalog subject "Physician and patient United States.".
- catalog subject "Physician-Patient Relations United States.".
- catalog subject "Quality of Health Care United States.".
- catalog subject "RA413.5.U5 M33 1998".
- catalog subject "W 130 AA1 M182m 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue. Rationale for the Managed Care Revolution -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Good Doctor: What Medical Care Should Be -- 3. From Hippocrates to "Providers": How Healers and Caregivers Became Product Sellers -- 4. Captured by Stealth: How American Business Stole Medicine -- 5. Has Managed Care Succeeded?: Slap! We Needed That. Or Did We? -- 6. What's Wrong with Managed Care and Government Control of Medicine? -- 7. More Ways in Which Managed Care Impairs Your Relationship with Your Doctor -- 8. Privacy -- 9. Does Managed Care Fulfill Its Promise to Preserve Quality of Care While Reducing Cost? -- 10. How Medicine Is Affected by Legal and Ethical Trends in Practice.".
- catalog title "Mismanaged care : how corporate medicine jeopardizes your health / Michael E. Makover.".
- catalog type "text".