Mike Magee

Code Blue (eBook, ePUB)

Inside America's Medical Industrial Complex

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This "searing and persuasive exposé of the American health care system" demonstrates the disastrous consequences of putting profit before people ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In this timely and important book, Mike Magee, M.D., sends out a "Code Blue" -an urgent medical emergency-for the American medical industry itself. A former hospital administrator and Pfizer executive, he has spent years investigating the pillars of our health system: Big Pharma, insurance companies, hospitals, the American Medical Association, and anyone affiliated with them. Code Blue is a riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on the giant industry that consumes one out of every five American dollars. Making clear for the first time the mechanisms, greed, and collusion by which our medical system was built over the last eight decades. He persuasively argues for a single-payer, multi-plan insurance arena of the kind enjoyed by every other major developed nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Seitenzahl: 622
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780802146878
• Artikelnr.: 56516780

Autorenporträt

Mike Magee, MD, is a medical historian and journalist on the faculty of Presidents College at the University of Hartford. He has held similar roles at a range of academic institutions. He was a Honorary Master Scholar at the NYU School of Medicine and a Distinguished Alumnus award recipient from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Beginning as a country doctor in western New England, he rose to the highest level of his profession holding senior executive positions at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and as head of global medical affairs for Pfizer. He is editor of the blog HealthCommentary.org. mikemagee.org healthcommentary.org @hcommnews