Book Reviews – Medical Practice

Reviews by Del Meyer, MD

Shorter versions have appeared in Sacramento Medicine, Medical Sentinel, California Physician, St. Croix Review.

• Almost Persuaded, American Physicians and Compulsory Health Insurance, 1912-1920  by Ronald L. Numbers, 1978.
• Bargaining for Life – A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938  by Barbara Bates, MD, 1992.
• The Business of Medicine   by J K Silver, MD, 1998.
• Code Blue: Health Care in Crisis  by Edward R. Annis, 1993.
• Compulsory Health Insurance, the Continuing American Debate  by Ronald L. Numbers, Editor, 1982.
• Condition Critical  by Echo Heron, RN, 1994.
• A Family of Doctors  by David Hellerstein, 1994.
• Framing Disease; Illness, Society and History – A Bibliography of Health Care Insurance  by Charles E. Rosenberg and Janet Golden, Editors, 1992.
• Hospital – An Oral History of Cook County Hospital   by Sydney Lewis, 1994.
• How Doctors Think  by Jerome Groopman, 2007.
• How To Get (a Lot) More New Patients – Secrets of a Highly Successful Medical Practice  by J E Limpin, MD, and E L Forys, Esq., 2000.
• Intensive Care – A Doctor’s Journal  by John F. Murray, MD, 2000.
• The Lost Art of Healing – Practicing Compassion in Medicine by Bernard Lown, MD, 1998.
• A Study of Hospital Efficiency: As Demonstrated by the Case Report of the First Five Years of a Private Hospital  by E.A. Codman, 1996.