Taming the Beloved Beast - How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System Paperback
Taming the Beloved Beast - How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System Paperback Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a…
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Taming the Beloved Beast - How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System Paperback
Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry.
How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish? The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming everyone?In Taming the Beloved Beast, esteemed medical ethicist Daniel Callahan confronts this dilemma head-on.
He argues that we can't escape it by organizational changes alone. Nothing less than a fundamental transformation of our thinking about health care is needed to