At the Front Lines of Medicine How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients and What We Can Do about It

In this book Dr. Waitzkin offers a comprehensive analysis of the current problems of costs, coverage, and access to medical care in the United States. He takes the reader into the examination room with vivid patient-doctor encounters that portray dilemmas patients frequently face. Dr. Waitzkin describes how changes in medical care have affected the decision making of doctors, as well as communication between patients and doctors. He offers an analysis of how spiraling costs, managed care organizations, declining coverage, and new technologies have changed the decisions and the course of care chosen. Visit our website for sample chapters!Waitzkin, Howard B. is the author of 'At the Front Lines of Medicine How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients and What We Can Do about It', published 2004 under ISBN 9780742542570 and ISBN 0742542572.