At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients...and What We Can Do about It

by Howard Waitzkin

Book Overview

For three decades Dr. Howard Waitzkin has worked "at the front line of medicine." As a practitioner of internal medicine and primary care and as a sociologist, he has devoted much of his career to improving health services, especially for poor and underserved patients migrant workers in California, immigrants living in Southwestern communities, and patients in developing countries of Latin America. In his latest book Dr. Waitzkin offers a comprehensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742501310
• ISBN13: 9780742501317
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.5"