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008 101015s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780230603738 (hardback)
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050 00 $aRA395.A3$bB5445 2011
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100 1 $aBloche, Maxwell Gregg,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe hippocratic myth :$bwhy doctors are under pressure to ration care, practice politics, and compromise their promise to heal /$cGregg Bloche, M.D.
250 $a1st edition.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2011, ©2011.
300 $aviii, 264 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [234]-260) and index.
520 $a"When we're ill, we put our trust in doctors who promise to put our well-being first and pledge to do us no harm. But medicine's expanding capabilities and soaring costs threaten to make this commitment obsolete. Increasingly, warns Gregg Bloche, society is calling upon physicians to ration care and to put their skills to use on behalf of insurance companies, hospital bureaucrats, government officials, and courts of law. Doctors have increasingly answered this call, putting patient trust and health at risk, while endangering citizens' liberty and privacy. In this book, Dr. Bloche evocatively communicates the tensions and emotions of doctors and patients as he takes on a wide variety of complex ethical situations, including how: - doctors have double agendas, as caregivers and arbiters of cost, compromising their ability to prioritize patient needs - medicine has become a weapon in America's internal fight over such matters as abortion, assisted suicide, and the rights of gays and lesbians - doctors decide, under pressure from insurers and hospital administrators, to discontinue potentially life-saving treatment, even when patients and family members object. Challenging, provocative, and insightful The Hippocratic Myth breaks the code of silence shrouding medicine's routine departure from the promise of uncompromising loyalty to patients. It is a powerful warning about the need for doctors to forge a new compact with patients and society. This is a hard-hitting message for the medical community and anyone who has ever been a patient. "--Provided by publisher.
650 0 $aMedical care$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMedical ethics.
650 0 $aHealth care rationing$zUnited States.
650 0 $aPhysicians$zUnited States.
650 12 $aHippocratic Oath$zUnited States.
650 22 $aHealth Care Costs$zUnited States.
650 22 $aHealth Care Rationing$xethics$zUnited States.
650 22 $aPhysician's Role$zUnited States.
650 22 $aPhysician-Patient Relations$zUnited States.
650 22 $aQuality of Health Care$xethics$zUnited States.