Paul Jesilow/Henry Pontell/Gilbert Geis: Prescription for profit. How doctors
defraud Medicaid.
Univ.of California Press 1993, 250p. 0-520-07614-1. $ 25.
[Medicaid is a health assistance programme financed by federal,
state, and local taxes to help pay hospital and medical costs
for persons of low income.] Medicaid fraud is one of the more
sordid moral lapses to which physicians have succumbed.
This book serves well to jar the reader into better
awareness of a serious and neglected aberration of professional
morality. Few conscientious physicians will read it without
feeling that the profession has been diminished by its complacency.
The book is a good attention getter, solutions and data are sometimes
vague and speculative.

Marc Rodwin: Medicine, money, and morals. Physician's conflicts of interest.
Oxford UP 1993, 410p. 0-19-508096-3. $ 25.
"Too many people have made too much money providing health care",
said Hillary Clinton in the New York Times. This excellent book is
probably the first systematic examination of financial conflicts of
interest in the medical profession [in the United States?].
Rodwin's proposals for reform deserve very serious consideration.