Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine: The United States, France, and Japan

by Marc A. Rodwin

Book Overview

As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over physicians' medial choices. These conflicts raise questions about physicians' loyalty to their patients and their professional and economic independence. The consequences of such conflicts of interest are often devastating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199755485
• ISBN13: 9780199755486
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"