Davidson (strategy, policy, and health care management, Boston U.) et al. present this book aimed at improving the health care system through better management and collaboration with physicians. They describe challenges in health care that are the result of the dominance of organizations, from the viewpoint of patients and employers and doctors, and they give an example of a "healthy" organization and what it takes to create it. Examples illustrating problems and the physician-manager relationship are followed by suggestions for improvement. The book was originally published as The Physician-Manager Alliance: Building the Healthy Health Care Organization in 1996. Annotation 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
