Previously published: New York : Doubleday, 2004. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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