citizen patient
Subtitle: reforming health care for the sake of the patient, not the system
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781469607047
Description: "Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like. Central to this vision is a shared understanding of the primacy of the relationship between doctor and patient. Hadler shows us that a new approach is necessary if we hope to improve the health of the populace. Rational health care, he argues, is far less expensive than the irrationality of the status quo.Taking a critical view of how medical treatment, health-care finance, and attitudes about health, medicine, and disease play out in broad social and political settings, Hadler applies his wealth of experience and insight to these pressing issues, answering important questions for citizen patients and policy makers alike"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Shills when profit trumps benefit -- Price fixing  -- Truth and consequences marketing with tortured and massaged data -- If we build it, they will come the procedures and devices gambit -- Another good idea still in waiting health promotion, disease prevention -- The social construction of health -- Extricating health care from the perversities of its delivery system -- A clinic for the twenty-first century.