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Author Barken, Frederick M. (Frederick Mitchell), 1955- author.

Title Out of practice : fighting for primary care medicine in America / Frederick M. Barken
Published Ithaca [N.Y.] : ILR Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages)
Series The culture and politics of health care work
Culture and politics of health care work.
Contents Introduction: the doctor is out -- A first visit with the doctor -- Tell him not to drive -- Polypharmacy: the problem with pills -- Poly-doctoring: a doctor for every disease -- A bubble off -- On the road again -- The supply side -- All in the family -- Practice/malpractice -- You get what you pay for
Summary The author uses his own experiences as a primary care physician to describe the state of his profession and argues that the health care system will collapse without a strong physician-patient relationship and that the role of the primary care physician must change to survive
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Primary care (Medicine) -- Practice -- United States
Physicians (General practice) -- United States
Physician and patient -- United States
Physician practice patterns.
Physician and patient.
Primary Health Care
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Physician-Patient Relations
Physicians, Primary Care
MEDICAL -- Physicians.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Physician practice patterns
Physician and patient
Physicians (General practice)
Primary care (Medicine) -- Practice
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780801461088
0801461081
9780801460609
0801460603