The Citizen Patient: Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System Contributor(s): Hadler MD, Nortin M. (Author), Weiner, Tom (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1470898853 ISBN-13: 9781470898854 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
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BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Health Care Issues |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 7.5" (0.25 lbs) |
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Publisher 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 US 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hadler MD, Nortin M.: - Nortin M. Hadler, MD, MACP, MACR, FACOEM, is professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attending rheumatologist at UNC hospitals. He is a frequent health-care commentator in popular media and the author of Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society. Tom Weiner, a dialogue director and voice artist best known for his roles in video games and television shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Transformers, is an Earphones Award winner and Audie Award finalist. He is a former member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. |