Squeezing Out the Doctor; The Future of Medicine  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8787 (Jun. 2012), page 25-27.
Topik: Physicians; Medical Technology; Health Care Industry; Demand; Manycountries

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The past 150 years have been a golden age for doctors. In some ways, their job is much as it has been for millennia: they examine patients, diagnose their ailments and try to make them better. Since the mid-19th century, however, they have enjoyed new eminence. The rise of doctors' associations and medical schools helped separate doctors from quacks. Licensing and prescribing laws enshrined their status. And as understanding, technology and technique evolved, doctors became more effective, able to diagnose consistently, treat effectively and advise on public-health interventions--such as hygiene and vaccination--that actually worked. With the 21st century certain to see soaring demand for health care, the doctors' star might seem in the ascendant still. But the demand for health care looks unlikely to be met by doctors in the way the past century's was. For one thing, to treat the 21st century's problems with a 20th-century approach to health care would require an impossible number of doctors. For another, caring for chronic conditions is not what doctors are best at. For both these reasons doctors look set to become much less central to health care--a process which, in some places, has already started.

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