Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index.
Summary
"Strangers in the Night explains how the legal system helps shape health-care delivery and policy, explores new ways of looking at the relationship between law and medicine, and reflects on why it all matters. The story focuses on the judicial response to the rise of managed care, especially challenges to cost-containment initiatives, and shows how the legal system has facilitated managed care's dominance over the health-care system."--Jacket cover.
Contents
pt. I. Historical Perspectives on Law and Medicine -- 1. Law and Medicine -- An Overview -- 2. From Cooperation to Contention -- 3. From Liability to Business -- pt. II. The Judicial Response to Managed Care -- 4. Historical Precursors -- 5. The Courts and Managed Care -- Establishing the Rules -- 6. Immunity -- 7. The Backlash -- 8. Managed Care Litigation -- Shaping Policy and Health-Care Delivery -- pt. III. Restoring the Primacy of the Physician-Patient Relationship -- 9. Mutual Distrust Between Attorneys and Physicians -- 10. Fiduciary Duty -- 11. Strangers in the Night, or Conciliation and Cooperation?