Mismanaged care

by Michael E. Makover

Drawing on over thirty years' experience in internal medicine, Dr. Michael E. Makover, a medical professor and practicing physician in internal medicine, speaks out for an ethical and caring tradition that has been endangered by current practices. In Mismanaged Care: How Corporate Medicine Jeopardizes Your Health, he explains the rationale for managed care, which was believed to be the solution to rising medical costs and alleged failures in American medical practice, and shows why managed care has not only failed to fulfill its promise, but has actually made things worse by stressing corporate profits over patients' needs and a cost-versus-quality mentality that focuses on the bottom line. Dr. Makover shows in detail how a good doctor provides quality medical care when free of outside interference and how, by contrast, managed care violates the doctor-patient relationship and fails to deliver on the quality it promises. Dr. Makover argues eloquently and authoritatively for a return to