Queen of the Professions: The Rise and Decline of Medical Prestige and Power ...

Queen of the ProfessionsThe Rise and Decline of Medical Prestige and Power in America\nAuthor(s): Charles E. McClelland\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781442226302, 978-1442226302\nSynopsis\nAmerican medicine is under serious attack. The health care system is falling short of its major goal, improving the health of the population. The United States ranks only 35th in world life expectancy. But where American medicine arguably remains at a pinnacle in the world in the status, wealth and power of the profession of medicine -- physicians are in danger of losing first rank. As other professions close the gap, their top economic position is threatened. Slippage may be measured also by other, less quantifiable factors, such as the highest prestige of physicians among all learned occupations.\n\nQueen of the Professions: The Rise and Decline of Medical Prestige and Power in America is a colorful yet aut.