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000404680 1001_ $$aBloche, Maxwell Gregg,$$eauthor.
000404680 24514 $$aThe hippocratic myth :$$bwhy doctors are under pressure to ration care, practice politics, and compromise their promise to heal /$$cGregg Bloche, M.D.
000404680 250__ $$a1st edition.
000404680 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2011, ©2011.
000404680 300__ $$aviii, 264 p. ;$$c25 cm
000404680 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000404680 5050_ $$aIntroduction: Hippocrates' myth -- Cutting costs and keeping faith -- Stakeholders, wonks, and the setting of limits -- Politics, morals, and medical need I: PTSD -- Politics, morals, and medical need II: Mobilizing shared resources -- Setting limits by consent -- Doctors as warriors I: America's frisson with torture -- Doctors as warriors II: Ethics and politics -- Doing justice? -- Conclusion: moving beyond the myth.
000404680 520__ $$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.
000404680 650_0 $$aMedical care$$zUnited States.
000404680 650_0 $$aMedical ethics.
000404680 650_0 $$aHealth care rationing$$zUnited States.
000404680 650_0 $$aPhysicians$$zUnited States.
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