Background
Relman, Arnold Seymour was born on June 17, 1923 in New York City. Son of Simon and Rose (Mallach) Relman.
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The U.S. healthcare system is failing. It is run like a business, increasingly focused on generating income for insurers and providers rather than providing care for patients. It is supported by investors and private markets seeking to grow revenue and resist regulation, thus contributing to higher costs and lessened public accountability. Meanwhile, forty-six million Americans are without insurance. Health care expenditures are rising at a rate of 7 percent a year, three times the rate of inflation. Dr. Arnold Relman is one of the most respected physicians and healthcare advocates in our country. This book, based on sixty years' experience in medicine, is a clarion call not just to politicians and patients but to the medical profession to evolve a new structure for healthcare, based on voluntary private contracts between individuals and not-for-profit, multi-specialty groups of physicians. Physicians would be paid mainly by salaries and would submit no bills for their services. All health care facilities would be not-for-profit. The savings from reduced administrative overhead and the elimination of billing fraud would be enormous. Healthcare may be our greatest national problem, but the provocative, sensible arguments in this book will provide a catalyst for change.
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Relman, Arnold Seymour was born on June 17, 1923 in New York City. Son of Simon and Rose (Mallach) Relman.
AB, Cornell University, 1943. Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1946. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Pennsylvania.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Medical College Wisconsin. Doctor of Science (honorary), Union University. Doctor of Science (honorary), Medical College Ohio.
Doctor of Science (honorary), City University of New York. Doctor of Medical Science (honorary), Brown University. DLH (honorary), State University of New York.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Temple University.
House officer, New Haven Hospital, Yale, 1946-1949; National Research Council fellow, Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial hospitals, 1949-1950; practice medicine, specializing in internal medicine, Boston, 1950-1968; practice medicine, specializing in internal medicine, Philadelphia, 1968-1977; assistant professor, professor medicine, Boston University School Medicine, 1950-1968; director, Boston University Medical Services, Boston City Hospital, 1967-1968; professor medicine, department chairman medicine, University of Pennsylvania chief medical services, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, 1968-1977; editor, New England Journal Medicine, Boston, 1977-1991; editor emeritus, New England Journal Medicine, Boston, since 1991; senior physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, since 1977; professor medicine and social medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1977-1993; professor medicine and social medicine emeritus, Harvard Medical School, since 1993. Consultant National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service. Member board registration in medicine Commonwealth of Massachusetts, since 1995.
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Trustee Columbia University, 1990—1996. Board directors Hastings Center, 1981—1983. Master: American College of Physicians (John Phillips medal 1985).
Fellow: American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member: American Medical Association, American Federation Clinical Research (past president), American Society Clinical Investigation, Institute of Medicine of National Academy of Sciences (council 1979-1982), Massachusetts Medical Society, American Physiological Society, Association American Physicians (council, president 1983-1984, Kober medal 1993), Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa (senator 1991-1998).
Married Harriet Morse Vitkin, June 26, 1953. Children: David Arnold, John Peter, Margaret Rose.