The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim Its Moral Legacy? Pdf

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Release: 2007-05-01
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1567513840
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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The medical profession and healthcare in the United States are in trouble. Healthcare is unaffordable for a growing part of the population, 46 million Americans are uninsured, tens of millions are underinsured, quality of care is unpredictable, and these problems are getting worse, not better. All incremental attempts at reform have been ineffective, and the nation is confronting a crisis in healthcare costs, access, quality, and equity.John Geyman, MD, a renowned expert in primary care and health policy, traces over the last forty years the sea change in US healthcare, which has engulfed the profession in a marketplace now controlled by corporate and business interests. The profession’s long history of service-based ethics and its social contract have been called into question as the business “ethic” of bottom-line profits has spread throughout the system. The deregulated healthcare marketplace, now one-sixth of the nation’s economy, has had damaging impacts on health of the p Download The Corrosion of Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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