Those Anti-Doctor Books

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IN his introduction, the author of the The Great American Medicine Show avows that his pediatrician "is about as saintly a man as we are sometimes told all doctors used to be," but nevertheless feels impelled to write about "The Unhealthy State of U.S. Medical Care and What Can Be Done about It."1 So what else is new?Then follow some 275 pages divulging that medical care is too costly, with inappropriately small returns for money spent, that private insurance is inadequate, with too limited coverage for many, that hospitals are overutilized and are not motivated to economize, that Medicaid . . .

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