Product Description: From traditional, health-oriented community care to the new era of bottom-line-focused medical treatment, this work presents the dramatic shift in modern US medicine. The implications are explored in a series of dialogues about the most recent changes in managed care, hospital governance, alliances between physicians and managers, and health care ethics: the problems to be solved, the threats that must be met, and the opportunities that lie ahead for those hospitals and physicians who are willing to challenge the status quo...read more