Title: Trusting medicine
Description: Provides an overview of healthcare spending and the cost-containment mechanisms that have lead to an increasingly corporate style of healthcare in the US. It also looks at what happens to doctor-patient relationships in a managed care system and how good doctor-patient relationships could contribute to health promotion and to social capital. The book concludes with policy implications, including the applicability of lessons to other areas, such as environmental protection and policing.
Subjects: Ethics, Managed Care Programs, Managed care plans (Medical care), Moral and ethical aspects of Managed care plans (Medical care), Physician and patient, Physician-Patient Relations, Trust, Moral and ethical aspects
Places: United States