Mismanaged Care

How Corporate Medicine Jeopardizes Your Health

By: Michael E. Makover

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Hardcover | 1 September 1998 | Edition Number 1

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The special relationship of trust and openness between doctor and patient has been vital for centuries. But, under the guise of providing affordable healthcare, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) threaten not only quality but the essential doctor/patient bond as well.

Government and corporate intervention has turned medicine into big business where the patient is viewed as a source of cash flow rather than as a human being. Mismanaged Care exposes this new age of HMO doctoring for what it is: a rush to profit rather than a concern for patient's needs; a cost-versus-quality machine that emphasizes the bottom line, while patients become the victims of a corporate mentality that favors assembly-line treatment standards.

With more than thirty years experience in medicine, Dr. Makover argues eloquently and authoritatively for a return to the professionalism that puts patients' needs first. He calls for the healthcare debate to be stripped from the hands of politicians, businessmen, insurance providers, and lawyers, and given back to patients and independent, self-employed doctors. He closely examines facts and fallacies, and the pros and cons of managed care, and suggests better ways to finance healthcare.

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Home Nursing & Caring Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies General Studies Medicine Medicine in General Health Systems & Services Business & Management Management & Management Techniques Medical Profession

Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct

Preface	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 11
Prologue: The Rationale for the Managed Care Revolution	p. 13
Introduction	p. 19
The Good Doctor: What Medical Care Should Be	p. 27
From Hippocrates to "Providers": How Healers and Caregivers Became Product Sellers	p. 49
Captured by Stealth: How American Business Stole Medicine	p. 54
Has Managed Care Succeeded?: Slap! We Needed That. Or Did We?	p. 80
What's Wrong with Managed Care and Government Control of Medicine?	p. 92
More Ways in Which Managed Care Impairs Your Relationship with Your Doctor	p. 107
Privacy	p. 134
Does Managed Care Fulfill Its Promise to Preserve Quality of Care While Reducing Cost?	p. 147
How Medicine Is Affected by Legal and Ethical Trends in Practice	p. 154
How Managed Care Bypasses, Controls, and Limits Doctors to Save Money and Why You Pay the Price	p. 169
Issues	p. 199
The Lure of Single-Payer Health Plans and Why They Will Not Work Here	p. 244
A Better Way	p. 252
Epilogue	p. 277
How to Make the Most of an HMO, If You Must Be in One	p. 279
Glossary	p. 283
Bibliography	p. 289
About the Author	p. 295
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