Losing our way in healthcare
Subtitle: the impact of reform
By: Kevin R. Campbell
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9789814725446; 9789814616812
Subjects: Medical care; Health care reform; Patients; Physician and patient; Public health; United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: pt. One Reform and the Patient; title: Introduction; title: 1. Buyer Beware: How Patients are Negatively Impacted by the Changing Landscape of the Affordable Care Act (ACA); title: 2. Big Brother is Watching ... And Your Healthcare Privacy Rights May Suffer: More Affordable Care Act Fallout; title: 3. An Apple a Day; title: Changing Medicine through Technology and Engagement; title: 4. Medicine in the Age of Mobile Technology: How Tablets Are Transforming the Patient Encounter; title: 5. Obamacare Delays and Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Old People Can't Surf; title: 6. The High Cost of Terminal Illness: Big Pharma Cashes in on Hope; title: pt. Two Reform and the Physician; title: Introduction; title: 7. Reflecting on Medicine and Change: Sailing Rough Seas and Finding Uncharted Waters Ahead; title: 8. Finding Success and Happiness in Medicine? Where is the Holy Grail?; title: 9. Obamacare Fuels Burnout: Running for Cover and Finding Nowhere Left to Hide.; title: Note continued: 10. Physicians and Leadership in the Age of Reform: The Power of Applying "I Don't Know" to Medicine; title: 11. The High Healthcare Costs of Emergency Department Visits: Stop Pointing Fingers and Begin Offering Solutions; title: 12. The Next Government-Based Healthcare Debacle: Coding for Orca Bites?; title: pt. Three Reform and the Doctor; title: Patient Relationship; title: Introduction; title: 13. Limiting Choices and Destroying Relationships: Early Consequences of the Affordable Care Act; title: 14. Government Regulation and the Destruction of the Art of Medicine: When Checking Boxes Replaces Care; title: 15. The Doctor; title: Patient Relationship on the Brink of Extinction: The Impact of Physician Post Graduate Training; title: 16. The Perversity of Medicare Incentives and Reform: Turning People & Patients into 10-Minute Time Slots; title: 17. Sharing Bad News or Keeping Secrets: How Physician Communication Impacts Patients and Families.; title: Note continued: 18. Attending a Funeral: Mourning the Loss of a Friend and Learning More About the Art of Medicine; title: pt. Four The Politics of Reform; title: Introduction; title: 19. Sex, Lies and Healthcare Reform: The Current (Sad) State of the (Un) Affordable Healthcare Act; title: 20. Obama's Latest Bait and Switch for Docs: Medicaid Payments to be Cut by 40%; title: 21. Unsustainability: Obamacare, Medicaid Expansion and the Destruction of the "Art" of Medicine; title: 22. Controlling the Costs of Innovation; title: 23."Veritas", Ivy and the Affordable Care Act: What is Good for the Goose May Now NOT be Good for the Gander at Harvard; title: 24. Healthcare Industry CEOs and the Cost of Care: Too Many Men (and Women) in Black (Suits)?; title: pt. Five Reform and the Future of Medicine; title: Introduction; title: 25. The Doctor Shortage of Tomorrow: Fact or Fiction?; title: 26. More (or less) Hope and Change (for the worse) in Healthcare: Are Doctor Shortages Really All Due to Training Bottlenecks?; title: Note continued: 27. Doctors Punching Time Clocks: The Impact of Reform; title: 28. The Advantages of Team Approaches to Patient Care: Extending NOT Replacing Physician Care; title: 29. The Electronic Medical Record Mandate and Managing Fraud: More Government Ineptness?; title: 30. Turf Battles and Collateral Damage: Are We Really Putting the Patient First?