Saddlebags To Scanners - The First 100 Years Of Medicine In Washington State [B1016]

1989 HCDJ in nice clean condition, 11x8.5-inches, 307-glossy pages, published by the WA State Medical Association. From the front flap: "Over the course of the last 100 years, medicine has advanced at an unprecedented rate. At no other time in our history have we enjoyed so many remarkable technological achievements that have done so much to ease human suffering and prolong human life. At the same time, our expectations about health care delivery and availability have changed dramatically. These considerations, coupled with the very scientific achievements that have improved our quality of life, have unleashed a series of ethical questions that can only be characterized as a Pandora's box.

Saddlebags to Scanners doesn't attempt to answer the questions that such a historical perspective is bound to stir in the reader's mind. It does, however, give the reader a foundation for understanding critical issues and problems by presenting the direct testimony of caregivers of the past. A book for the general reader as well as for physicians, it is a record of medicine's incredible growth set against the backdrop of Washington State's development from infancy to adulthood.

A visual timeline beginning in 1889, the same year the Washington State Medical Association was founded, sets the stage for the chronology that follows. From here, Saddlebags to Scanners traces significant medical achievements in the context of Washington State's social, political, and economic development. What follows is an overview of health care delivery and economics that seeks to explain how we arrived at where we are today. One hundred years later, health care is at a crossroads. Where medicine will go over the next 100 years will largely be a function of how well we understand where we've been. Saddle-bags to Scanners offers valuable perspective on the future as well as the past"