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Critical condition : how health care in America became big business - and bad medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barlett, Donald L.
Other Authors: Steele, James B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, 2004.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Health Care Sector.
Delivery of Health Care.
Health Policy > economics.
Insurance, Health.
United States.
Case Reports.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : the crisis
  • 1. A second-rate system
  • Rampant overcharging
  • Without a safety net
  • A teacher learns a lesson
  • Spending more for less
  • Watchdog for the drug companies
  • Emergency in the ER
  • America's unknown killer
  • Favors and fraud
  • Politics and profits
  • 2. Wall Street medicine
  • How profit became policy
  • Selling the hospitals
  • Corporate culture
  • Buying the doctors
  • Nurses who battle the bottom line
  • 3. Anatomy of a systems failure
  • A bad business model
  • Doctor C's empire
  • Meltdown
  • Vanishing histories
  • 4. The labyrinth of care
  • The new bureaucrats
  • Overruling the physicians
  • The wrong jobs
  • The insurers' secret codes
  • Long-distance diagnosis
  • Online and offshore
  • 5. Madison Avenue medicine
  • Blame it on bad breath
  • The TV ad blitz
  • "Ask your doctor"
  • Risky business
  • The celebrity pitch
  • Your next drugs
  • 6. The remedy
  • Curing the ills
  • Crisis and opportunity
  • Epilogue : medicine in the media.