Word: ama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COULD the author of The Andromeda Strain and Dealing write something like Five Patients? After all, Five Patients is supposed to be a serious expose of hospital mismanagement, AMA intransigence, and technological innovations in medicine, isn't it? Actually, author-doctor Michael Crichton has performed no mysterious feat- Patients is just as conversational and dramatic as his other novels; it is written for the ignorant layman and contains just enough intelligent information to fool the reader into thinking that the compelling mystery he is reading is a technical account of hospital life...
...passages. A section on hospital costs is interesting: Part of a hospital bill is reprinted showing the incredible expenses involved in health care, and Crichton adds an intelligent, if brief, comment on forms of health insurance. It's in this section, too, that Crichton takes a swing at the AMA with an attack that has been quoted by reviewers who think Crichton is a serious Harvard Medical student...