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American Health Care: Rebirth or Suicide?
by Benjamin F. Fuller, 102 pp, $29.75, ISBN 0-398-05914-4, Springfield, Ill, Charles C Thomas Publisher, 1994.
Milton H. Seifert, Jr, MD, Reviewer
Excelsior, Minn
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(12):1069-1070.
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This is an important book by an important person and is most worthy of reading, rereading, and actual study. The book is important because it describes the educational component of health care reform, and Benjamin F. Fuller, MD, is important because he has been both a practitioner and a teacher in both the academic and the community settings. Here is the voice of experience that is able to speak to us from four different domains. Twentyfour years ago he was told that his ideas were good but that they were too slow and would take 15 or 20 years to accomplish and that would be too long.
Dr Fuller thinks the medical profession has a death wish, judging from its behavior toward its constituency during the past 40 years. He cites arrogance, insensitivity, impersonal and technologically focused diagnosis and treatment, the ignoring of reports of task forces and seminal papers
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