illness stories;
autoethnography;
unintended consquences;
medical ethics;
D O I:
10.1177/1049732304272043
中图分类号:
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号:
1004 ;
120402 ;
摘要:
The author uses an autoethnographic account of a close friend's emergency cardiac surgery, and its disastrous outcome, to explore and critique the contemporary search for medical "miracles" and the patchwork and inequitable system of medical reimbursement in the United States.