Why our health matters : a vision of medicine that can transform our future /

The World Health Organization recently rated America thirty-seventh in health outcomes, on par with Serbia. Tackling head-on the three major myths of American medicine, Dr. Weil shows how medical schools fail to give future doctors the education they need to care for patients, how insurance companie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weil, Andrew
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Hudson Street Press, [2009]
Subjects:	Health care reform > United States. Medical education > United States. Health insurance > United States. Pharmaceutical industry. Health Care Reform > United States. Health Promotion > United States. Primary Prevention > United States.

Table of Contents:

You have a right to good health care
Exposing the myths of American health care
Moving to the future while learning from the past
Reversing the toxic trends
Doctors of the future
Medicine of the future
The new American health care
Disease prevention : the sustainable solution
Health promotion : the critical component
What the future will look like.