"With Do Not Resuscitate, his 6th incisive critique of American medical care, John Geyman rounds out his 360 degree examination of commercialization, profiteering, and professional lassitude in the health care in this country. His articulate and data-driven prescription is, once again, single-payer, national health insurance—a message that is ever more pertinent to our troubled system and brings reality to the rhetoric of need for change in America."

—Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
The George Washington University

“As public demand grows for thoroughgoing reform of our disastrous system, physicians must play a constructive role. No reform can work if they continue to be part of the problem, not the solution. It is for this reason that I am enthusiastic about Dr. Geyman’s fine new book. He shows clearly that physicians are central to any health system, and offers a powerful argument that they need to reclaim their moral commitment to put patients’ needs first.”

—from the Foreword by Marcia Angell, senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School
and former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine

“A most important book by one of America’s leading experts. We are paying dearly in health system inefficiency and unnecessary pain and suffering because of the cracks in our safety net. Without attention to this issue as Dr. Geyman illustrates, we will never eliminate disparities in health among different racial and ethnic groups in this nation.”

—David Satcher,
16th U. S. Surgeon General, Director, National Center for Primary Care
at Morehouse School of Medicine

“John Geyman has written a trenchant and timely contribution to the important debate on the future of Medicare, a debate that should engage families as well as policy makers.”

—Christine K. Cassel, M.D.
President, American Board of Internal Medicine