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By James Stacey. 193 pp. Winnetka, Ill., Conversation Press, 1993. $12.95. ISBN 0-9634395-1-0.

Stacey claims that medicine is a false religion that is practiced in a crumbling temple. It is false because contemporary health care is often ineffective and almost always expensive. The temple is crumbling because of attacks on medicine that result mainly from the frustration of patients' expectations. These expectations have been artificially inflated by the medical profession and the media. Stacey's prose is crisp, but his evidence and argument are familiar, and his grasp of historical fact is weak.

Stacey has an agenda for reform. He wants, for example, each patient to have a primary care physician who is modest . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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