Critical Condition

by Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B.

• ISBN13: 9780375434150
• ISBN10: 0375434151
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Random House Large Print

Author Biography

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele are America's most widely acclaimed investigative journalism team. They have worked together for three decades, first at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and, since 1997, as editors at large for Time. They are the only journalists in history to have won two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine Awards, as well as dozens of other national awards. They are the coauthors of six books

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Crisis	p. 1
A Second-Rate System	p. 9
Rampant Overcharging	p. 15
Without A Safety Net	p. 24
A Teacher Learns A Lesson	p. 27
Spending More for Less	p. 32
Watchdog for the Drug Companies	p. 35
Emergency in the Er	p. 45
America's Unknown Killer	p. 51
Favors and Fraud	p. 63
Politics and Profits	p. 69
Wall Street Medicine	p. 75
How Profit Became Policy	p. 88
Selling the Hospitals	p. 94
Corporate Culture	p. 99
Buying the Doctors	p. 109
Nurses Who Battle the Bottom Line	p. 113
Anatomy of a Systems Failure	p. 123
A Bad Business Model	p. 128
Doctor C's Empire	p. 132
Meltdown	p. 139
Vanishing Histories	p. 145
The Labyrinth of Care	p. 155
The New Bureaucrats	p. 158
Overruling the Physicians	p. 161
The Wrong Jobs	p. 170
The Insurers' Secret Codes	p. 172
Long-Distance Diagnosis	p. 182
Online and Offshore	p. 189
Madison Avenue Medicine	p. 195
Blame it on Bad Breath	p. 199
The TV Ad Blitz	p. 203
"Ask Your Doctor"	p. 210
Risky Business	p. 215
The Celebrity Pitch	p. 223
Your Next Drugs	p. 227
The Remedy	p. 235
Curing the Ills	p. 240
Crisis and Opportunity	p. 247
Epilogue: Medicine in the Media	p. 251
Notes	p. 259
Acknowledgments	p. 267
Index	p. 269
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