Overview
- Authors:
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David Cundiff
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Mary Ellen McCarthy
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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The Health Care Crisis
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 3-16
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 17-32
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 33-52
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 53-63
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Restructuring the Health Care System
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 67-84
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 85-99
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 101-118
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Pages 119-128
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Restructuring the American Lifestyle
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Front Matter
Pages 129-130
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 131-137
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 139-147
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 149-163
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 165-168
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 169-181
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Pages 183-192
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The Costs and Benefits of Reform
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Front Matter
Pages 193-193
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- David Cundiff, Mary Ellen McCarthy
Pages 195-208
About this book
When Dr. David Cundiff called me with a proposal to help research and write The Right Medicine I was intrigued but skep tical. His ideas for reform of the US health care system were visionary, radical, and highly original-but would they work? As a Wall Street analyst and long-time student of the health care system, I had my doubts. had read David's book on hospice care, Euthanasia Is Not the I Answer, and was impressed. And I had recently witnessed the slow death of my grandmother from the complications of Alzheimer's disease. Despite the fact that she was and had been suffering for years and despite the fact that her care was an extraordinary emotional and financial burden, nursing home administrators and physicians encouraged one last ditch treat ment after another, pulling her back each time from the brink of what would have been a merciful death. I knew that David was correct in his contention that hospice care and a more spar ing application of high technology medicine were major keys to improving health care. I also realized, after a decade of analyzing the health care industry, that a government-funded system along the lines of Canada's was probably the only way to rein in rampant infla tion and provide universal coverage. But David had other ideas, too. He argued that preventive care could dramatically cut both the incidence and costs associ ated with the most common causes of illness in America today.
Reviews
...well written and informative...offer(s) a comprehensive and dramatic plan for health care reform that is of interest...the proposals...have some merit and, at least in part, ought to be given some consideration...this book ought to be available in libraries as a reference...***-Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal
