M. Gregg Bloche

M. Gregg Bloche, a health policy expert with a background in medicine, law and journalism, looks at the ways society is pushing physicians to ration care and to use their skills on behalf of insurance companies, hospital bureaucrats, government officials, and the courts―putting patient trust at risk. In The Hippocratic Myth: Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise Their Promise to Heal, he looks at the tensions between doctors and patients and examines how doctors have double agendas as caregivers and arbiters of cost, which compromises their ability to prioritize patient needs, and why there’s a need for doctors to forge a new compact with patients and society.