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02535nam a2200373Ia 4500 001 3E7D844A2B0B11DE9A033608A8D7520A 005 200904162350.0 008 051111s2006 nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780767910750 (pbk.) 020 $a 0767910753 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)62260293 040 $a NCM $c NCM $d SILO $d SILO 100 1 $a Barlett, Donald L. 245 1 $a Critical condition : $b how health care in America became big business-- and bad medicine / $c Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. 260 $a New York : $b Broadway Books, $c c2006. 300 $a vi, 279 p. ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a Previously published: New York : Doubleday, 2004. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Medical care, Cost of $z United States. 650 0 $a Insurance, Health $z United States. 650 0 $a Medical policy $z United States. 650 0 $a Medical economics $z United States. 650 0 $a Medical care $z United States 700 1 $a Steele, James B. 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2004055288.html 856 41 $3 Sample text $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2004055288.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004055288.html 939 $a 5550465 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160823053817.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3E7D844A2B0B11DE9A033608A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWA 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20090701080000.0Initiate Another SILO Locator Search