The Hippocratic Myth: Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise Their Promise to Heal

by M. Gregg Bloche

When we're ill, we trust in doctors to put our well-being first. But medicine's expanding capability and soaring costs are putting this promise at risk. Increasingly, society is calling upon... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230603734
• ISBN13: 9780230603738
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.5"