Dr. Futurity
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Dr. Futurity is a 1960 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick.
[edit] Plot
Dr Jim Parsons, a medical doctor from 2012 America (it is revealed that Parsons is 32 years old and was born in 1980) , is suddenly thrown into the future. There he finds that his profession is treated with disdain, in the future individuality is sacrificed for the good of the human race as a whole. By killing off the weak, poverty and disease are eliminated.
However, Parsons' travel through time is no accident and he finds that a group rebelling against the ruling system have taken him through time to heal a man in the future, so that he can change the past.