Citation

Cassell J. Qual. Health Res. 2005; 15(4): 555-563.

Affiliation

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1049732304272043

PMID

15761098

Abstract

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.

Language: en