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Socialist nations assume the financing of all care and leave it to the medical
profession to define what is needed, how it must be done, who may do it, what it
should cost, and also who shall get it. Some other nations intervene with laws
and ...
Socialist nations assume the financing of all care and leave it to the medical
profession to define what is needed, how it must be done, who may do it, what it
should cost, and also who shall get it. Some other nations intervene with laws
and ...
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Public Control over the Medical Mafia A third kind of public policy, namely the
attempt to control the internal organization of the medical profession, has equally
health-denying effects. I have avoided blaming either self-serving production or ...
Public Control over the Medical Mafia A third kind of public policy, namely the
attempt to control the internal organization of the medical profession, has equally
health-denying effects. I have avoided blaming either self-serving production or ...
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they cannot be told what medical services will cost: at best they can be told how
much the public is willing to grant them as ... Tax Support to All Medical Sects The
medical profession has largely ceased to pursue the goals of an association of ...
they cannot be told what medical services will cost: at best they can be told how
much the public is willing to grant them as ... Tax Support to All Medical Sects The
medical profession has largely ceased to pursue the goals of an association of ...
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Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
SOCIAL IATROGENESIS | 26 |
Copyright | |
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