Demanding Medical Excellence

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction: A Different Kind of Revolution
Part One: Doing the Right Thing and Doing the Right Thing Right
1. Some Do, Some Don't
2. What Doctors Don't Know
3. First, Do No Harm
4. Saving Lives, Bit by Byte
5. State of the Art
6. State of the Science
Part Two: Changing the Paradigm of Medical Practice
7. Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
8. The Doctor's Car and the Car Companies' Doctors
Part Three: Holding Medicine Accountable for Results
9. A New York State of Mind
10. The Empire Strikes Back
11. Show Time
12. Changing the System from Within
13. The Early Worm Gets the Bird
Part Four: The Promise and Perils of Managed Care
14. Money, Managed Care, and Mom
15. Medicine in the Information Age
16. Power to the Population
Epilogue: A Celebration of Medicine's Future
Afterword: Still Demanding Medical Excellence
Notes
Index