my book review in NY Post Opinion books on Sunday speaks to the need to retain the patient contact, caring, and deep involvement with patients that is at the heart of good medicine.
This essential quality will be the first thing to be further jeopardized if government mandates for expanded coverage don't take "quality of care" into account. Dr. Chen directs these issues to the essential need to care for dying patients, but it is a universal concern for all health care.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03252007/postopinion/postopbooks/dying_for_compassion_postopbooks_marc_k__siegel.htm
This essential quality will be the first thing to be further jeopardized if government mandates for expanded coverage don't take "quality of care" into account. Dr. Chen directs these issues to the essential need to care for dying patients, but it is a universal concern for all health care.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03252007/postopinion/postopbooks/dying_for_compassion_postopbooks_marc_k__siegel.htm
