TY  - JOUR
T1  - COncern about patient care
AU  - M.D.B.
Y1  - 1969/06/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300160109018
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 719
EP  - 721
VL  - 123
IS  - 6
N2  - There is evolving in both the popular and scholarly world of letters a very insistent and disturbing refrain: all is not as well in American medicine as we may have believed or hoped. Two major critical essays have been published in recent months: one, a cover story in Time magazine entitled "What's Wrong with U.S. Medicine," 1 and, the second, a monograph by two Yale professors (one in sociology, the other in pediatrics) summarizing a series of detailed observations of patient and family care in a major university medical center.2 The Time essay focuses on several themes: (1) the present inordinate and steeply rising cost of medical care for the individual patient: (2) the disparities and unevenness in the quality of facilities and personnel that are available to patients throughout different areas of the nation; (3) the pressing work load experienced by physicians that is demanding both quantitatively (numbers
SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300160109018
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1969.00300160109018
ER  -