Serious discussion about comprehensive healthcare delivery soon boils down to providing for the indigent. Shades of Healing begins in the country notorious for separation of classes, twentieth century South Africa, and travels the distance and sophistication gap to the country recognized as both the wealthiest and most democratic, the modern USA. Yet in the final analysis, which country and system can learn from which?
Over the past half century medicine has advanced, practice has changed, physician prestige has waned, and healthcare delivery has failed. Shades of Healing tells of the turbulent journey of healthcare and its impact on people, doctors, and the doctor patient relationship.
Over the past half century medicine has advanced, practice has changed, physician prestige has waned, and healthcare delivery has failed. Shades of Healing tells of the turbulent journey of healthcare and its impact on people, doctors, and the doctor patient relationship.
