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Beyond political posturing and industry quick-fixes, why is the American health care system so difficult to reform?

Health care reform efforts are difficult to achieve and have been historically undermined by their narrow scope. In The Present Illness, Martin F. Shapiro, MD, PhD, MPH, weaves together history, sociology, extensive research, and his own experiences as a physician to explore the broad range of afflictions impairing US health care and explains why we won''t be able to fix the system without making significant changes across society.

With a sharp eye and ready humor, Shapiro dissects the ways all groups participatingclinicians and their organizations, medical schools and their faculty, hospitals and clinical corporations, scientists and the National Institutes of Health, insurers and manufacturers, governments and their policies, and also patients and the publicshape and reinforce a dysfunctional system. Shapiro identifies three major pr

The Present Illness

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 31 January 2023
      ISBN-13 9781421445656
      978-1421445656
      ISBN-10 1421445654
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      Public health and safety law Public health and preventive medicine

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Beyond political posturing and industry quick-fixes, why is the American health care system so difficult to reform?

      Health care reform efforts are difficult to achieve and have been historically undermined by their narrow scope. In The Present Illness, Martin F. Shapiro, MD, PhD, MPH, weaves together history, sociology, extensive research, and his own experiences as a physician to explore the broad range of afflictions impairing US health care and explains why we won''t be able to fix the system without making significant changes across society.

      With a sharp eye and ready humor, Shapiro dissects the ways all groups participatingclinicians and their organizations, medical schools and their faculty, hospitals and clinical corporations, scientists and the National Institutes of Health, insurers and manufacturers, governments and their policies, and also patients and the publicshape and reinforce a dysfunctional system. Shapiro identifies three major pr

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