Out of practice: fighting for primary care medicine in America
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Main Author: Barken, Frederick M., (Frederick Mitchell) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] ILR Press 2011
Series:Culture and politics of health care work
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Introduction: the doctor is out -- A first visit with the doctor -- Tell him not to drive -- Polypharmacy: the problem with pills -- Poly-doctoring: a doctor for every disease -- A bubble off -- On the road again -- The supply side -- All in the family -- Practice/malpractice -- You get what you pay for
The author uses his own experiences as a primary care physician to describe the state of his profession and argues that the health care system will collapse without a strong physician-patient relationship and that the role of the primary care physician must change to survive
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 244 p.)
ISBN:0801460603
9780801460609

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