Title The citizen patient : reforming health care for the sake of the patient, not the system / Nortin M. Hadler

Published [Chapel Hill] : University of North Carolina Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages) : illustrations Series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series. Contents 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 -- Quo vadis Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Medical care -- United States. Health care reform -- United States Patient participation. Physician and patient. Medical care. Health care reform. Delivery of Health Care Health Care Reform Patient Participation Physician-Patient Relations Patient Care HEALTH & FITNESS -- General. Health care reform Medical care Patient participation Physician and patient SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Form Electronic book ISBN 1469607050 9781469607054

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