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Introduction
I. WHAT MADE THE MODERN HOSPITAL MODERN?
Lister: The surgeons Endorse Miss Nightingale
Osler: The Internists Bring Teaching to the Almshore
Virchow: Pathologists Create a Temple of Truth
Harkness: Philanthropy Organizes the Medical Center
II. THE GROWTH AND IMPACT OF HEALTH INSURANCE ON THE HOSPITAL
III. THE GREAT TAPESTRY COMES UNRAVELLED
A. Nursing: Destruction of a great Profession
B. Dr. Kildare: Destruction of the Osler system
C. The Plaintiff's Bar: Destruction of the Autopsy
D. Surgeons Consider Whether to Move
E. Hospital Administration Conrad Hilton as Role Model
F. Trustees: The Cowardly Lion
1. Accounting Reports
G. The Blues Start to Fall Apart
IV. THE PUBLIC TRIES TO INTERVENE
GOVERNMENT, Federal
DRGs
Planning
Government, State
Maryland and Massachusetts
Government, Local
The Closing of PGH
Business
Voluntary Effort
Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Commission
V. THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS: CAPITAL COSTS
VI. THE WAY OUT
Shopping Centers, not Department Stores
Corporate Restructuring
Organized Physican Groups
EPILOGUE
Ideas for Chapters
Stockton, California
Young Turks-AAp etc... Gone Are the Days
Lawrenceville 5 miles away from anywhere
Yale Ding Dong
P and S- wards; Sunday Rounds; Establishment Power
NIH- I ain't paid to think; Shirley Temple's slots. That's wont work
Delaware- Mrs. DuP; Trustees/Doctor Hospital
Boston- Lucy Johnston and her sibs
Onicare
Jackson clinic
PSRO
Blue Shield Meeting
Originally published: Tuesday, November 06, 2018; most-recently modified: Wednesday, June 05, 2019