Leonard C Altman

Research Awards Index

• Categories: Medicine

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1985
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Testimony of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Special reports

• Author(s): United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1980
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• Publisher: Unknown

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National Institute of Dental Research Indexes

• Categories: Dentistry

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1984
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• Publisher: Unknown

Listings of extramural and intramural projects. Information provided is project number, subject, investigator, and laboratory/branch.

Current Catalog

• Author(s): National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

• Categories: Medicine

• Type: Book
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• Published: Unknown
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Company Doctor

• Author(s): Elaine Draper

• Categories: Medical

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2003-01-30
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• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

To limit the skyrocketing costs of their employees' health insurance, companies such as Dow, Chevron, and IBM, as well as many large HMOs, have increasingly hired physicians to supervise the medical care they provide. As Elaine Draper argues in The Company Doctor, company doctors are bound by two conflicting ideals: serving the medical needs of their patients while protecting the company's bottom line. Draper analyzes the advent of the corporate physician both as an independent phenomenon, and as an index of contemporary culture, reaching startling conclusions about the intersection of corporate culture with professional autonomy. Drawing on over 100 interviews with company physicians, scien...