Nursing, Physician Control, and the Medical Monopoly
Group, Thetis M. / Roberts, Joan I.
This history of physicians' efforts to dominate the healthcare system reviews the activities of early women healers and nurses, and examines the nurse-physician relationship. The authors then examine the results of medical monopolies, from the impact of patients' health and safety, to the development of HMOs and the current overpriced and fragmented healthcare system.