Losing my patience
Subtitle: why I quit the medical game
By: Mickey Lebowitz
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Gegensatz Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: North Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781933237268
Subjects: Medical care; Physicians; Attitudes; Biography; Health care reform
Description: The accessible, conversational autobiography of a successful physician who left his private practice because of the cruel realities of the American health care system.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half Title; title: Title Page: Losing My Patience; title: Verso; title: Contents; title: Prelude; title: Introduction; title: One - This is My Story: Good News / Bad News; title: Two - Studies and Stories: I Am Not Alone; title: Three - The Years in Training; title: Four - Endocrinology; title: Five - The Practice Years; title: Six - Should I Leave?; title: Seven - Would I Leave?; title: Eight - What I Miss Most About the Practice of Medicine; title: Nine - The American Health Care System is Sick; title: Ten - Time (or, Lack Thereof); title: Eleven - Malpractice; title: Twelve - The Finance of Being in Practice; title: Thirteen - The Insurance Companies; title: Fourteen - The Pharmaceutical Industry; title: Fifteen - What I Will Not Miss About Treating Patients; title: Sixteen - The Government; title: Seventeen - Back to Clinical Medicine; title: Eighteen - Solutions; title: Back Cover; title: http://www.myilibrary.com?id=218953&ref=toc