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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...
...Chairman of the Council on Drugs of the AMA, speaking as an individual, has publicly declared that brand names for drugs "should be abolished" and that "the public's best interest will not be served until this is done" since "they [the brand names] serve no constructive purpose". He termed arguments for brand-name prescribing "laughable" and "puerile". (Nelson Committee Hearings...
Last week the President of the AMA personally told me that "doctors should be free to prescribe as they wish," but overlooked that since each doctor is subject to at least $3000 worth of brand-name brainwash per year, each is likely to be a captive of the drug industry. By definition, a captive is not free...
Taking courage from stated views of the present Chairman of the AMA's Council on Drugs and of ex-president George Washington, I go on record as supporting passage of the Serlin Bill in the form it had when unanimously passed by the lower House and I strongly suggest that individuals and consumer groups follow suit. Richard Burack...