Taming the Beloved Beast : How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System /
Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Y...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Medicare on the ropes
- Taming the beloved beast : medical technology
- Getting serious about costs and technology
- Competition : the fix that will fail
- The cohabitation of medicine and commerce
- "Medical necessity" : an all-but-useless concept
- Redefining "medical necessity" : from individual good to common good
- Getting out from under : the politics of pain.