title: How We Treat the Sick: Neglect and Abuse in Our Health Services Michael Mandelstam How We Treat the Sick: Neglect and Abuse in Our Health Services Jessica Kingsley Publishers 384pp £18.99 9781849051606 1849051607 [Formula: see text].
abstract: The NUMEROUS failures in health care that the media have reported recently come as no surprise to michael mandelstam. he discusses the steady decline in care, especially of older people, in theNHS and in the independent sector.