Doctoring : the nature of primary care medicine / Eric J. Cassell.
American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much mor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Summary: | American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more besides. And yet, writes Eric Cassell, what started out early in the century as the exciting conquest of disease, has evolved into an overly expensive, over technologized, uncaring medicine, poorly suited to the health care needs of a society marked by an aging population and a predominance of chr. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 1997. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198027294 019802729X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |