Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy. (book reviews)

Mark Carl Rom, University of California, Berkeley, and Georgetown University

Intensive care. The image is of a critically ill patient - probably on a respirator - who needs constant and perhaps aggressive treatment from a staff of skilled professionals. Whether the patient lives or dies, and whether the patient is healed or remains incapacitated, depends as much and perhaps more on the condition of the patient as on the skills and diligence of the doctors. This picture of intensive care has two apparent meanings for this book, although neither is made explicit. The first shows ...

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