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Miracles of Modern Medicine/Casualties of Modern Medicine

Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

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.

Key Words: illness stories • autoethnography • unintended consquences • medical ethics

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 15, No. 4, 555-563 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1049732304272043


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