title: On creativity and cookbooks, discipline and freedom.
abstract: Is cookbook medicine a major threat to patients and physicians alike? Should this management tool be condemned as yet another disdainful and questionable aspect of managed care? Presented here are arguments for and against cookbook medicine--with some surprising conclusions. Could it be that cookbook medicine actually fosters creativity, discipline, and freedom?
authors.affiliation: Highland Hospital, Rochester, NY, USA. agliner@mail.frontiernet.net
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Gleiner
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003405:Creativity; D019091:Critical Pathways; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States