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The Literature of Medicine |15 June 1993

Reviews, Notes, and Listings: Scales of Justices: Exploring the Wilderness of Health Care and Society's Moral Conscience

David L. Freeman, MD

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Emerita T. Gueson. 213 pages. Bristol, Indiana: Wyndham Hall; 1992. $29.95.
In this tale of fiction, two resident physicians unceasingly work in an overwhelmingly busy city hospital. Drs. Laura and Michael give tireless, selfless, empathetic care to the urban poor, but they confront a profit-motivated and cruel healthcare system, which conspires to deprive their patients of critical medical services. For their efforts, they are mugged, robbed, sued for malpractice, and, in Michael's case, infected fatally by AIDS acquired from a patient's blood. In the story's background, reading like the entry log of a large emergency room, is the constant din of urban mayhem, a relentless series of vignettes of murder, rape, abuse, suicides, and auto accidents. A climax is reached in a grisly scene where a serial killer guns down judges and bystanders in a courtroom shootout.
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Freeman DL. Reviews, Notes, and Listings: Scales of Justices: Exploring the Wilderness of Health Care and Society's Moral Conscience. Ann Intern Med. 1993;118:990. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-118-12-199306150-00029

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1993;118(12):990.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-118-12-199306150-00029

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