The Profit Motive and Patient Care: The Changing Accountability of Doctors and Hospitals (Twentieth Century Fund Book). This item is unavailable.The Profit Motive and Patient Care: The Changing Accountability of Doctors and Hospitals (Twentieth Century Fund Book)

In this penetrating analysis, Bradford Gray tackles the thorny issues surrounding the question of to whom and for what our physicians and hospitals are accountable. This book provides a careful evaluation of the mechanisms of accountability that have developed along with a growing profit orientation of health care, and it alerts us to keep a sharp eye focused on who is looking out for the interests of the patient.

This book is an analysis of the American health care system during a period of rapid change. For the remainder of the century, these shifts will shape how providers and purchasers of services respond to the two great accountability problems that characterize health care: the vulnerability of the person who needs services and the absence of the payer at the point of service.