LITERATURE OF MEDICINE
Reviews, Notes, and Listings: Technology and Health Care in an Era of Limits
1 June 1993 | Volume 118 Issue 11 | Page 911
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Technology and Health Care in an Era of Limits
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Annetine C. Gelijins; ed. 282 pages. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1992. $36.00.
Fifteen thoughtful, authoritative papers on economic and policy problems in health care in the United States, which are a consequence, at least in part, of the explosion of sophisticated and costly technologic innovations. Special attention is given to priority issues and to particular systems (Oregon, Canada, and health maintenance organizations, in general). One paper is especially worth the attention of practicing physicians: Charles E. Silberman's "What Is It Like to Be a Patient in the 1990s?"
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