Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2011-03-15
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: B00A1A5JQ4
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
The Hippocratic Myth pdf
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When we’re ill, we trust in doctors to put our well-being first. But medicine’s expanding capability and soaring costs are putting this promise at risk. Increasingly, society is calling upon physicians to limit care and to use their skills on behalf of health plan bureaucrats, public officials, national security, and courts of law. And doctors are answering this call. They’re endangering patients, veiling moral choices behind the language of science and, at times, compromising our liberties. In The Hippocratic Myth, Dr. M. Gregg Bloche marshals his expertise in medicine and the law to expose how: *Doctors are pushed into acting both as caregivers and cost-cutters, compromising their fidelity to patients*Politics keeps doctors from giving war veterans the help they need*Insurers and hospital administrators pressure doctors to discontinue life-saving treatment, even when patients and family members object*Medicine has become a weapon in America’s battles over abortion, child cust Download The Hippocratic Myth for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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