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What's Wrong with Managed Care and How to Fix It |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / FEATURE |
| Author: Michael E. Makover, M.D. |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 5,820 Words, 35,001 Characters |
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She heard no results and assumed that everything was all right. Eight weeks later she found a message on her answering machine to call the doctor's office. When she did, she could not get the doctor to come to the telephone, but a nurse told her that one test was abnormal and they had called a prescription in to her pharmacy. The nurse asked her no questions, such as whether she was pregnant, and gave her no explanation. Mary started the medicine and soon felt very ill. She was afraid to stop it because she did not know why she was on it in the first place and did not know if stopping it would cause other problems. Yet, despite repeated calls, she was never able to get an appointment or to speak to the doctor. She began to feel sicker and sicker.
She knew what the problem was--her docto...
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...ld, since we have already suffered from a truly extreme idea: turning over control of the personal lives of our citizens to the government or to profit-seeking corporations. I believe we must not allow the miracle of American medicine to continue to be frittered away by abysmal public policy. We should restore health care to whom it belongs--each of us as the free citizens we are meant to be.
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