Severed trust
Subtitle: why American medicine hasn't been fixed
By: George D. Lundberg, with James Stacey.
Contributors: Stacey, James.
Edition: 1st ed., [rev.]
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Medical care -- United States.; Public health -- United States.; Social medicine -- United States.; Medical policy -- United States.; Medical care, Cost of -- United States.
Notes: Includes index.

"A member of the Perseus Books Group."

"Revised and updated with comprehensive new solutions to the health care dilemma"--Cover.

"Chapter 11 copyright 2002"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a medical memoir; title: The enemy is us: why medical care costs so much and what we can do about it; title: The question of queues: why we have to ration care; title: The coverage circus: why what you need is not always what you get; title: There is no alternative to medicine: why people buy care whenever they find it; title: Mouse calls for house calls: the benefits, deficits and promotion of internet care; title: A terminal profession: why medicine is under attack; title: Uninformed consent: when disclosure is incomplete, misleading or nonexistant; title: Disclosures on death: why doctors should help patients die; title: The search for quality: It all begins on the autopsy table; title: The way to reform: thinking about a better system; title: Patient-focused control: fixing our broken health system; title: Epilogue: International health care reform.