P.C., M.D.

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2001
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From one of America's most outspoken social critics, a searing account of how the wholesale intrusion of political correctness into medicine is creating a toxic healthcare system.. Drawing on a wealth of information PC, M.D. documents for the first time what happens when the tenets of political correctness-including victimology, multiculturalism, rejection of fixed truths and individual autonomy-are allowed to enter the fortress of medicine.

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From one of America's most outspoken social critics, a searing account of how the wholesale intrusion of political correctness into medicine is creating a toxic healthcare system.. Drawing on a wealth of information PC, M.D. documents for the first time what happens when the tenets of political correctness-including victimology, multiculturalism, rejection of fixed truths and individual autonomy-are allowed to enter the fortress of medicine.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 14 Dec 2001
ISBN 10: 046507183X
ISBN 13: 9780465071838

Author Bio

Sally Satel, M.D., a practicing psychiatrist, is a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine and the W. H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Her articles have been published in The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. She lives in Washington, D.C.