The best-laid plans : health care's problems and prospects /
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Author / Creator: | McFarlane, Lawrie. |
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Imprint: | Montreal ; Ithaca, N.Y. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 196 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11151921 |
Other authors / contributors: | Prado, C. G. |
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ISBN: | 9780773570214 0773570217 1282860461 9781282860469 9780773523647 0773523642 9780773523654 0773523650 |
Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index. Print version record. |
Summary: | Annotation Is health care like the BC Ferry Service or Ontario Hydro? Lawrie McFarlane and Carlos Prado argue that health care is being treated as though it were just another public utility and that the present crisis in medicare has developed precisely because of this approach. In The Best-Laid Plans they contend that what health care needs is less centralized management and the restoration of empowerment to both patients and care-givers. Contrary to recent attempts to reform health care, which have been based on the assumption that all health care needs is better management, McFarlane and Prado contend that what separates health care from other public services is the complex relationships between the service providers (doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, etc.) and their clients (patients), and the tendency for these relationships to evolve in unpredictable ways. |
Other form: | Print version: McFarlane, Lawrie. Best-laid plans. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002 0773523642 |
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