False Hopes: Why Americas Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure

by Daniel Callahan

Book Overview

This text exposes the cause of the health care crisis and proposes an alternative to make care affordable and available to all. It shows how the quest for perfection is the core of the crisis, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068481109X
• ISBN13: 9780684811093
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A stark and sober view of the future of health care.

This is one the best books I've read this year, a year in which I've completed an MBA in Medical Group Management after being confronted with a concentrated dose of the issues facing healthcare today. I've been a practicing physician for 27 years and couldn't overstate how well this book lays out the problems we face in the delivery of health care. There will be many objections to the ideas and recommendations contained in this book, especially from the special interests who offer us naught but "False Hopes" for a utopian future; but, in the final analysis our future depends in large part on a devolution in health care to an affordable steady state which can serve the basic needs of our society--our whole society. If you want a stark yet sober answer to our overall healthcare conundrum, rather than a mere list of the problems we face, read this book. It's reminiscent of Schumacher--it's "Small is Beautiful" for health care.