Dissecting American Health Care : : Commentaries on Health, Policy, and Politics.

The intersection of health care, politics, and policy is a controversial one, and this book of lively essays takes on many of today’s hot health topics: alternative medicine, health care reform, screening mammograms, taxes to change behavior, gun control, and many more. Former Assistant Surgeon Gene...

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Superior document:RTI Press Publication
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Place / Publishing House:Research Triangle Park, NC : : RTI International / RTI Press,, 2011.
©2011.
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:RTI Press Publication
Physical Description:1 online resource (167 pages)
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Other title:Dissecting American health care
Summary:The intersection of health care, politics, and policy is a controversial one, and this book of lively essays takes on many of today’s hot health topics: alternative medicine, health care reform, screening mammograms, taxes to change behavior, gun control, and many more. Former Assistant Surgeon General Douglas Kamerow, a family doctor, journal editor, and NPR commentator, combines evidence, opinion, and humor in 47 essays from his health policy columns in the medical journal <em>BMJ</em> and his nationally broadcast radio commentaries.
Hierarchical level:Monograph