The Forensic Case Files: Diagnosing and Treating the Pathologies of the American Health System
Shines a bright, penetrating light on the US health care system and exposes many of the pathologies that restrict access to care, cause harm to patients and drive up costs for everyone. The cases are real, maddening and wonderfully instructive. A must read for anyone committed to improving health and medical care. --Thomas G Rundall, Executive Associate Dean, School of Public Health, University of California, BerkeleyProfessor Smith is the rare author who combines scholarly rigor and the ability to engage the reader with a good story, well told. By using specific case illustrations, he persuasively conveys broad insights developed over a career spent analyzing the pathologies that infect America's health care system. And those insights, sadly, are dead on.  --Gordon Bonnyman, Executive Director Tennessee Justice CenterDavid Barton Smith's earlier books established him as a gifted story teller. The Forensic Case Files demonstrates again his ability to bring forward the lines of development in complex stories that are crafted to illuminate their important administrative and policy implications. Both a textbook and source of useful insight for experienced senior executives, The Forensic Case Files is a hard to put down `page turner.  --Gary L Filerman, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chairman Health Management and Policy Group