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Critical condition

by Hedrick Smith

Medical careQuality controlChronically illCareManaged care plans (Medical care)
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Companion Web site to the PBS television special. Presented in four segments: The quality gap: medicine's secret killer; The chronically ill: pain and profit and managed care; The idealistic HMO: can good care survive the market; and, The uninsured: 44 million forgotten Americans. Includes video clips and suggested readings.

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Medical careQuality controlChronically illCareManaged care plans (Medical care)Medically uninsured persons

Setting

United States

About the author

Hedrick Smith
Hedrick Smith

9 July 1933

Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent. After serving 26 years with The New York Times from 1962-88 as correspondent, editor and bureau chief in both Moscow and Washington, Smith moved into television in 1989, reporting and producing more than 50 hours of long-form documentaries for PBS over the next 25 years on topics from the inside story of the terrorists who mounted the 9/11 attacks and Gorbachev’s perestroika to Wall Street, Walmart and The Democracy Rebellion of grassroots citizen reform movements. Smith has authored five best-selling books including *The Russians*, *The Power Game: How Washington Work…

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Hedrick Smith

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1

Language

English

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PBS

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