Medicine--where it seems to be. An American health care system
| Autor: | Dimond Eg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
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Motivation
Legislation Medical business.industry Professional Review Organizations Liability General Medicine Public good United States Ideal (ethics) Social Control Formal Power (social and political) Cupboard Physicians Health care Medicine Electricity Electric power Marketing business Delivery of Health Care |
| Zdroj: | JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 238:1251-1255 |
| ISSN: | 1538-3598 0098-7484 |
| DOI: | 10.1001/jama.238.12.1251 |
| Popis: | THE MORNING paper reports that fuel shortage is making the "all-electric" home a considerable liability to the pocket-book. The details, in brief, are that ten years ago the power and light companies endorsed vigorously—in fact, huckstered—the advantages of cheap, clean, efficient electrical power as the way of the future for the ideal home. Now, ten years later, these same companies have looked in their energy cupboard and found electricity is still a clean source of heating but not at all cheap; in fact, said the news article, electricity was found so very dear that the utility companies are urging home conversion to oil or coal. This interesting example of inability to see the future, even when all signs were available a brief ten years earlier, readily is criticized by all of us as an example of an industry's lack of sensitivity to the public good and as an example of |
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