Thomas C. Jones 
From the Family Doctor to the Current Disaster of Corporate Health Maintenance [EPUB ebook] 
How to Get Back to Real Patient Care!

This book has tried to outline where we now stand on the issues of proper patient care. The authors have not wished simply to return to the glorious past but to identify what has happened to the old family doctor tradition and to find a way to salvage the part of that tradition that can insure that the wonderful activity of attention to patient first and foremost can be preserved. It will be a difficult task as the pressures are tremendous in the other direction. But it is possible to reverse inappropriate and possibly illegal pharmaceutical company advertising and physician payments, to find a way for government funding of education so that young doctors do not feel bound to financial gain rather than social responsibility, and to set up a structure of health care delivery that does not require fee-for service hospitals and clinics.
We, as doctors, nurses, and medical educators believe it can be done. We also believe the concept of a doctor who is only interested in his or her patients well-being has not really died but has been put on hold by false advertising, short term financial gains, and technologytemporarily, we hope.
Help us help your doctor to see what fun and personal fulfillment proper attention to his or her patients can bring. You can do it. Call your doctor!

O autorze

The authors of this book experienced family medicine and patient care in the 1960s and 1970s. They watched as the corporate world took over health care. They saw the financial benefit to doctors, to hospitals, and to the pharmaceutical industry replace the process of patient care by a concerned family doctor. Here, they detail the problem as it emerged and offer possible solutions. We also issue a request to patients and future patients alike—please help us return to real patient care.
Thomas C. Jones, MD, graduated from Case Western Reserve Medical School. He became professor and chief of the Division of International Medicine at Cornell University Medical College (1972–1985). He has authored three books and over two hundred research articles. Betsy M. Chalfin, MEd, received a master’s degree from the University of Illinois. She was program coordinator for the Division of International Medicine at Cornell, then academic administrator in the Department of Neurology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Beth Israel Medical Center, New York. She was copyeditor of the Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases.