Quality and the Medical Marketplace

Quality and the Medical Marketplace

To the Editor: The editorial by Drs. Angell and Kassirer (Sept. 19 issue) 1 is cute but fails to answer the question, Where did all those elephants — whose excreta is unmanageable — come from? At a time of hand wringing in medicine, we seem to be blind to the source of the problem. We have fought fo...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 1997-03, Vol.336 (11), p.807-809
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