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The Physician's Guide to Managed Care
edited by David B. Nash, 248 pp, $59, ISBN 0-8342-0393-6, Gaithersburg, Md, Aspen Publishers Inc, 1994.
Jason Chao, MD, MS, Reviewer
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, Ohio
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(1):74-75.
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This timely book seeks to provide physicians and physicians in training with a glimpse of the future of medicine. Traditional medical education has inadequately prepared physicians to contend with the myriad new options and opportunities now available for practicing medicine.
There is no single definition for managed care, but the foreword in The Physician's Guide to ManagedCare provides a useful one: "Managed care is the process of the application of standard business practices to the delivery of health care in the traditions of the American free enterprise system." Using this definition as a guide, the book's nine chapters cover a wide variety of topics pertinent to understanding managed care in the early 1990s. The book serves as a general introduction to the concepts and developing trends currently shaping the practice of American medicine.
Chapter 1 provides an overview with some basic definitions of terms that are frequently used in
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