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Richard gives an overview of the book:

Managed medical care, an irrational value-oriented medical mass movement, grew beyond its inherent worth, which was nil. Common sense and good judgment went out the window long ago. Satire attacks such mass madness, a mass hysteria: the function of satire when common sense, the press, academia, and regulatory agencies fail.
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Managed medical care, an irrational value-oriented medical mass movement, grew beyond its inherent worth, which was nil. Common sense and good judgment went out the window long ago. Satire attacks such mass madness, a mass hysteria: the function of satire when common sense, the press, academia, and regulatory agencies fail.

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About Richard

The author received medical education at Kansas University Medical Center, and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in internal medicine and rheumatology, and holds memberships in a number of professional societies and board certifications. He was Assistant Clinical Professor of...

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Published Reviews

Sep.06.2010

Book Review Rise and Fall of Managed Care; a comprehensive history of a mass medical movement. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. September 2001, Vol. 39 No. 01

Wyndham Hall Press, 2001...

Sep.09.2010

Herman Melville continues to be the most complex American author of the 19th century, and indeed one of the wonders of literature of the period in English. As such he continues to invite research into the...