American medicine, the quest for competence / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520922037
- 0520922034
- 0585098638
- 9780585098630
- Clinical competence
- Medical care -- United States -- Evaluation
- Clinical Competence
- Physicians
- Professional Autonomy
- Education, Medical
- United States
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- MEDICAL -- Health Policy
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General
- MEDICAL -- Diseases
- MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery
- Clinical competence
- Medical care -- Evaluation
- United States
- Artsen
- Beroepspraktijk
- Verenigde Staten
- 362.1/0973 20
- RA399.A3 G66 1995eb
- 1995 I-983
- W 21
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index.
What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care? These and many other crucial questions are examined in this book.
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