Medical Work in America: Essays on Health Care
ISBN-13:
9780300041576
ISBN-10:
0300041578
Author:
Eliot Freidson
Publication date:
1989
Publisher:
Yale Univ Pr
Format:
Hardcover
274 pages
Category:
Doctor-Patient Relations
,
Medicine
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ISBN-13:
9780300041576
ISBN-10:
0300041578
Author:
Eliot Freidson
Publication date:
1989
Publisher:
Yale Univ Pr
Format:
Hardcover
274 pages
Category:
Doctor-Patient Relations
,
Medicine
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Medical Work in America: Essays on Health Care (ISBN-13: 9780300041576 and ISBN-10: 0300041578), written by authors
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Present-day health care policies in the United States are moving toward a system in which patients will be treated like industrial objects by doctors forced to work mechanically, says the distinguished medical sociologist Eliot Freidson in Medical Work in America. He offers a number of controversial proposals designed both to reduce costs and to avoid such dehumanization.In a series of essays that includes some of his classic work as well as significant new material, Freidson discusses the doctor-patient relationship, relations between physicians in various forms of medical practice, and the forces now reorganizing medical work. He shows how increasingly restrictive health insurance contracts insert a new, problematic element into both doctor-patient and colleague relations, and how bureaucratic methods of controlling medical decisions affect those relations. Finally, Freidson advances some basic principles to guide health care policy. He emphasizes that the physician's freedom to exercise discretion is essential if patients are to be treated as individuals rather than as administratively defined diagnostic categories. His recommendations include eliminating fee-for-service compensation, controlling health industry profits, and limiting the external administrative regulation of medical decisions while organizing medical work in such a way as to maximize effective and responsible self-governance.
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