Health Care Half-truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality
- ISBN-10
- 0742558290
- ISBN-13
- 9780742558298
- Category
- Health care reform
- Pages
- 315
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Authors
- Arthur Garson, Carolyn L. Engelhard
Description
Health Care Half-Truths shows the ways in which American health care is tarnished and ways in which it shines, explaining that if we are going to make our health care system work, we must begin with the truth. In this book, Dr. Arthur Garson identifies twenty myths about the U.S. health care system and uses his extensive knowledge and keen insights to blow them apart.
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- 2008-08
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