Flatlined: Resuscitating American Medicine

by Guy L. Clifton

Flatlined lifts the veil of secrecy on twenty-first century health care and delves into the realities of good people caught in a bad medical system. Dr. Guy L. Clifton, a practitioner as well as a policy advocate, reveals first-hand accounts of needless tragedy, such as the young man who died after a car wreck for lack of a bed in a qualified hospital and the surgeon who was dejected by the scarcity of resources needed to enable him to perform heart...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813544289
• ISBN13: 9780813544281
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"