Health Care Reform as Social Change

Author: Richard E. Thompson, MD

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Health Care Reform as Social Change

Why do physicians need to actively participate in the national health care reform process? It's explained in this stimulating and provocative book that precisely reveals how you can be positive and pro-active, regardless of the whims of the national political process.

179 Pages © 1993

Table of Contents

Part One
Code Blue, Emergency!

Chapter 1
Symptoms of a Seriously Sick System: Some Scary Day

Chapter 2
Twenty Years of Symptomatic Treatment: Political Posturing and Policy Changes, 1974-1995

Chapter 3
Urgent Care: Proposed Cures, 1995-??, and Chances for Success

Part Two
Basic Etiologies

Chapter 4
Flawed Federal Policies Reflect the Realities of Today's Political System

Chapter 5
Pumped-Up Public Expectations

Chapter 6
Profit vs. Product: How Values of People in Business Create Either a Money-Flow or a Money-Drain Economy

Part Three
Resulting Disorders

Chapter 7
Lack of Leadership

Chapter 8
Lawyers and Consultants in Charge

Chapter 9
Unpublicized Cost Factors

Chapter 10
Iatrogenic Complications: Reactions of Some Physicians to Disappointed Expectations

Chapter 11
Little Collaborative Effort

Chapter 12
A Lopsided Search for Value: The Quality Issue

Part Four
Biting the Magic Bullet

Chapter 13
Facing Seven Additional Concerns