Book review: J. Fry, D. Light, J. Rodnick, P. Orton (eds.). Reviving primary care: a US-UK comparison.

The authors of this book conclude that the cure of the United States’ health care system should be found in the British NHS.

It seems, however, that this conclusion was their starting point, rather than the result of careful study. In the preface, they open by stating: 'Unashamedly this is a biased book! It is biased toward our thesis that primary care is the essential foundation for any cost-effective health care system’, and in their view, the British system is ‘… the best primary care system in the West’.

So, the readership has been warned that this is not just a comparison of two health care systems, as the subtitle suggests, but that it has a message as well.