Teaching Healing and Healing Teaching

Abstract

Time to Heal American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care. Kenneth M. Ludmerer. Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. 540 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-511837-5. Ludmerer discusses the web of interactions among medical schools, teaching hospitals, and the health care system that have shaped the evolution of medical education in the United States since World War I. His narrative ends with a consideration of the challenges offered by the current environment of managed care.