Medicine and the State
OSLER L. PETERSON M.D.
This book reminds one of French waiters who err in adding the bill. This is not remarkable, but the fact that the errors are always in their own favor is, however, unusual. Medical care everywhere is plagued by certain problems—loss of practitioners from rural areas, augmented demands for care, rising costs, and increasing specialization, and fewer family doctors to name but a few. Using mainly data from European countries, the authors seek to prove that most of these problems of modern medicine are a consequence of "planning" and state intervention.
