The Hippocratic Myth: Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise Their Promise to Heal

by M. Gregg Bloche

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0230603734

ISBN13:9780230603738

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:St. Martin's Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.5"

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Administration & Medicine Economics Health Health Policy Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Medical Medical Books Medical Ethics Medicine Politics & Social Sciences Public Health Science & Math Social Sciences

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