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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, including America: What Went Wrong?, which spent eight months on the New York Times bestseller list.
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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