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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.Amazon.com Review<... More >>
PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine
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#1 by Carlos Vazquez Quintana on April 13, 2010 - 9:41 am
The title suggest a more wide view of Medicine, but really it’s a political pamphlet and furthermore I’m afraid plenty with a generous surplus of political correctness shown in a mirror as a counterimage. Perhaps only readers from USA can be sure of this, but we see: Medicine I think has had an advance comparable to the learning of a foreign language or any difficult art or science: at first it’s slow and difficult (protohistory – 1800), secondly there’s a phase when one feel that the advance is fast -roughly 1800-1975-, but today it seems there’s a third final phase when each minute piece of knowledge costs terribly, in effort and in money. F. e. many times today, older people feels they, more than live, survives a life plenty of sickliness, and some diseases are invincible for all. But Dr. Satel wants to simplify these big problems only focusing about the difficulties of women ort ethnic minorities. Insistence in the difference of quality between rich or poor people is logical, but this isn’t the only problem to solve with Health services but the roots of so huge questions surpasses the limited, politized opinions show in the book.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by J. Johnson on April 13, 2010 - 12:16 pm
Don’t be fooled. This book is an attack on progressive thinking about psychiatry. Satel is formulating policy – that compulsory drugging of psychiatric patients be extended. She is against ex-patient survivor groups who pose this threat: that people may actually recover from their problems, or even their diagnoses. Read the lengthier critiques written here. Educate yourself.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on April 13, 2010 - 1:42 pm
THIS AUTHOR(SATEL) IS OUT IN LEFT FIELD. THIS BOOK UPSETS ME AS PROFESSIONAL NURSE WITH 36+ YEARS CLINICAL/ADM/MILITARY/TEACHING/LEGAL CONSULTANT EXPERIENCE. THE SECTION ON TT(THERAPEUTIC TOUCH) AS ONE OF DR. KREIGER’S “CRAZIES” OF THE THE 70′S THIS CONCEPTUAL CONCEPT WORKS. PLEASE REVIEW AMERICAN HOLISTIC NURSE WEB SITE FOR REVIEWED ARTICLES RE: TT/HT(HEALING TOUCH). AS HUSBAND OF A WELL SEASONED PROFESSIONAL NURSE MY WIFE A CHTP IE: A CERTIFIED HEALING TOUCH PRACTIONER. SATEL DID AN INJUSTICE TO THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF TT/HT.
AGAIN PHYSCIAN’S ARE WRITING ABOUT NURSING PRACTICE THEY NEED TO STAY IN THEIR MEDICAL MODEL LET NURSING PROFESSIONAL WRITE ABOUT NURSING PRACTICE. AS THE STATEMENT “IF YOU WANT TO PRACTICE NURSING GO TO NURSING SCHOOL” OR A PHYSICIANS SAY “WHEN DID YOU GO TO MEDICAL SCHOOL. JOHN E.TRAVERS,R.N.,M.N.,C-NADM
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on April 13, 2010 - 2:20 pm
Her claim that ECT is not used because of PC concerns is incorrect. ECT is still a well used therapy, but the real problem with it is that it is based on the flimsiest of science. Foolish book by someone who herself clearly has a political agenda.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Midwest Book Review on April 13, 2010 - 2:22 pm
Dr. Satel’s coverage in PC M.D.? analyzes how political correctness is corrupting medicine, documenting what happens when the rejection of fixed facts and patient autonomy are allowed in the medical world. Chapters use case histories to present circumstances of political correctness resulting in errors or false information.
Rating: 5 / 5