Over the last two decades, the medical profession and all of its affiliates have undergone dramatic changes. Through the prism of her own attempts to navigate the medical world, Wang elucidates key events in her professional life-the declining state of hospitals and clinics, the advent of managed care, and the rise of profits at the expense of patient care-that highlight the profession's decline. Part personal story and part rallying cry, The Kitchen Shrink is an unflinchingly honest, passionate, and humane inside look at the unsettling realities of free-market medicine in today's America.