The New Medical Marketplace: A Physician's Guide to the Health Care System in the 1990s [Paperback]

Dr. Anne M. Stoline MD (Author), Dr. Jonathan Weiner PhD (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0801845831 | ISBN-13: 978-0801845833 | Publication Date: April 1, 1993 | Edition: Revised

Springfield Hospital Center, Sykesville, Maryland. Revision of The New Medical Marketplace: A Physician's Guide to the Health Care Revolution, 1988. Intended as a textbook for medical students. DNLM: Delivery of Health Care - economics - U.S.

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""Provides an excellent and unbiased introduction to the U.S. health care system while avoiding most of the current controversy about policy.. I consider the book a good primer for medical students and residents who want to understand the health care system in which they will be working." -- New England Journal of Medicine

"A welcome discovery for busy medical students: a quick, easily digestible, yet comprehensive description of the US health care system's organization and financing. The book summarizes the evolution of the health care system over the last two centuries and presents a brief lesson in health care economic theory. Perhaps most important, it thoroughly describes the multiple payer and delivery systems that constitute American health care, focusing on the interests of patients, providers, and third-party payers in three neat chapters.. Provides the necessary information and does so in a surprisingly enjoyable and streamlined way." -- Journal of the American Medical Association

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Revised edition (April 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801845831
• ISBN-13: 978-0801845833
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,766,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The New Medical Marketplace: Commentary With Purpose, April 22, 2000

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Dr. Roger J. Pentzien "rjpentzien" (Omaha, NE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Medical Marketplace: A Physician's Guide to the Health Care System in the 1990s (Hardcover)

The senior author and her colleagues describe in eloquentfashion the health care system within the United States up through theearly 1990s. Yet their work published by the prestigious Johns Hopkins University Press forecasts with uncanny acumen the state of U.S. health care well into the new millennium. While Dr. Stoline describes herself as a "casualty of reform fervor, a hopeless idealist (raised as I was by politically active parents in the 1960s)," she easily permits the reader to draw his or her own conclusion regarding the medical marketplace. The delineation of the factors in the equation comprised of cost crises, ethical and clinical dilemmas burgeoning due to the mingling of health care, third party payors (insurance), public policy and private profits, is superb and contributes to the timelessness of this volume. Physicians and other health care providers are often accused of being unable to clearly and succinctly articulate what is happening to the American health care environment. No such criticism can be leveled at this work and its authors. They address directly the issues, provide the supporting data, and challenge both our political and medical leadership, as well as the American people to stand up and take notice. Whether effective action will follow the infusion of this catalyst, only further time will tell. To date (mid-April of 2000), optimism must surely be on the decline from the vantage point of the authors. A challenge to readers: Read the book, stand up, take notice and then take action. That is the message I glean from this text...