Severed Trust

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By the former editor of JAMA, this explosive insider account documents the alarming capture of American medicine by commercial and political interests, and offers a detailed blueprint for reform written especially for this Revised Paperback Edition.. This no-holds-barred book includes a new chapter presenting a comprehensive, politically achievable, private-public solution to the health care dilemma-one that preserves the best of the present system, eliminates the worst current problems, and represents our nation's last best chance to contain costs without a government takeover of medicine.

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George D. Lundberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief and Executive Vice President of Medscape. He was for seventeen years editor of JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association. A resident of Chicago, New York City, and Los Gatos, California, he is on the faculties of Northwestern University and the School of Public Health at Harvard. James Stacey was until his retirement in 1999 the Director of Media and Information Se rvices for the Washington Office of the AMA. He is the author of Inside the New Temple: The High Cos t of Mistaking Medicine for Religion (1993). He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.