Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today (Reflective...

As the future of the private doctor/patient relationship comes into question, Do We Still Need Doctors? offers an intimate look at doctors' shifting roles and responsibilities in our rapidly changing health care system. Now in paperback, this poignant and compassionate personal account, which has received widespread media attention, including Oprah, offers an intimate look at how today's doctors are dealing with the ethical and political battles that are reshaping our nation's health care system.

Weaving affecting stories of his young patients with stirring dilemmas of truth telling, creative negotiation of HMO bureaucracy, and reflections on the identity crisis of medical education, pediatrician Dr. Lantos-a member of the Clinton Administration's Presidential Task Force on Health Care Reform-reveals how changes in our health care system and technological advances are fostering new ways of understanding and responding to illness. He taps into the public's dissatisfaction with the current role doctors and hospitals play in patient care and presents balanced views of both managed care and for-profit medicine. Most importantly, Dr. Lantos reveals how managed care continues a trend toward rationalizing disease and streamlining treatment that doctors themselves have initiated and sustained for decades. Illness and death will always resist rationalizing, and in order to respond to them, he claims doctors and patients alike need to re-imagine what healing is or ought to be. more

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-26-2001; Medicine and philosophy; We do still need doctors, of course, and will probably need them far into the future. What John Lantos really explores is what role will they play? What role do they play now? What is their relation to the patient? How should they be...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-30-2000; A true Classic; As I read the first reveiw of this book, I was shocked and appalled at the distinct lack of intelegence displayed by the reviewer. In fact, the only thing that is not worth reading is his review! In reality this is one of the most...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-26-1999; Actually...; Actually, it was quite good. I read this one while on a Hawaiian vacation and still managed to knock it out in under ten days. Sure, Dr. Lantos draws generously on personal anecdotes, but medical ethics is a topic that lends itself...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-11-1998; Not worth your time; If ever there were a case for not judging a book by its cover, this is it. I purchased this book thinking that its title suggested an interesting dilemma in the modern evolution of health care, but all I got out of it is that John...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-26-2001; Medicine and philosophy; We do still need doctors, of course, and will probably need them far into the future. What John Lantos really explores is what role will they play? What role do they play now? What is their relation to the patient? How should they be...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-11-1998; Not worth your time; If ever there were a case for not judging a book by its cover, this is it. I purchased this book thinking that its title suggested an interesting dilemma in the modern evolution of health care, but all I got out of it is that John...; read full review | report as inappropriate