Rationing Medicine (Book).

Rationing and critical care medicine.

As healthcare expenditures have continued to grow in the United States and elsewhere, the demand for cost-cutting measures has increased. This has led many to wonder if we are, in fact, rationing health care. Critical care is characterized by very high expenditures on a relatively few number of patients, many of whom do not survive, and it is therefore a likely place where rationing could occur...

Text-Book of Medicine

ducing a very admirable text-book on general medicine there is not the slighest doubt. The book consists of two moderate-sized volumes in royal octavo, and is in every way admirably printed and got up, in the way we have become accustomed to associate with the books published by Mr. Young J. Pentland. A difficulty lies, however, in classifying the volumes. It has no pretensions to be a System l...

Text-Book of Medicine

M.D. Two volumes. Vol. I. Pp. xvi., 824. Vol. II. Pp. xvi., 909. Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland. 1901. The scheme and scope of this Text-Book of Medicine are excellent for the purposes of the student and general practitioner. The editor has gathered round him a number of well-known authorities in the several departments in which they contribute, each one possessing the width of scientific and pra...

Text-book of Medicine

MR. BROCK, who considers that Astley Cooper "has not received that acknowledgment wvhich he deserves," has given us a most interesting account of the work of this remarkable surgeon. From his appointment to the staff at Guy's Hospital in 1800 till his death in 1841 he held a leading place in British surgery, both as surgeon and teacher. His lectures at one time attracted as many as 400 students...

Text Book of Medicine (Livingston)