Doctors in Canada: The Changing World of Medical Practice

by Bernard R. Blishen

Through the twentieth century, the nature of medical practice has changed more quickly, more dramatically, and far more publicly than that of any other profession in Canada. In this study Bernard Blishen identifies the social and political pressures on the medical profession and assesses how it has responded to them.

Among the changes doctors have confronted are third-party pressures from government and hospital bureaucracies, greater public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802068669
• ISBN13: 9780802068668
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"