A Physician’s Retrospective on the Past 50 Years of Medicine & Impact of Social Change. Fall From Grace: A Physician’s Retrospective on the Past Fifty Years of Medicine and the Impact of Social Change By: J. Joseph Marr, MD. Dr. Joseph Marr is a retired academic physician and pharmaceutical and biotechnology executive. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Xavier University in Ohio, and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Marr is the author of more than 200 academic publications.
Fall from Grace is a candid, personal history of an academic physician and biotechnology executive that reflects on medicine as it was in the mid-twentieth century and chronicles the changes in society and medicine during the second half of that century.
The book investigates the social revolution of those times; the scientific and technological advances that occurred; the influence of the computer and the digital revolution; the entry of corporate management into health care; and the effects of the profit motive on the care of patients. All of these have had enormous influence on the role of the physician in health care.
The inadequacies, over the years, of the fee-for-service system and the consequent governmental involvement in reimbursement systems are discussed and compared with other health care payment systems around the world.
