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By Michael L. Millenson. 433 pp. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997. $24.95. ISBN 0-226-52587-2.

Information is power, and perhaps a seed of corruption. In Michael Millenson's paean to medicine in the information age, once corporations have confiscated power from clinicians it absolutely does not corrupt.

Millenson, a Chicago-based health reporter turned consultant, is a true believer in the virtue of the information revolution. His engaging account of the development of information science and quality assurance in medicine is enlivened by clinical vignettes and brief biographies of key actors. The first of his principal theses — that doctors, unsupervised and unaccountable throughout most of this century, committed a myriad of sins — is surely correct. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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