Curing Medicare : : A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It / / Andy Lazris.
Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 2 line figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: My Boss
- 1. Defining Quality: The Quest for Numerical Perfection
- 2. Defining Thorough: Finding and Fixing Everything
- 3. Excessive Specialization, Expectation, and Litigation
- 4. Hospitalization: The Pinnacle of Thorough
- 5. Long-Term Care: The Unwitting Geriatric ICU
- 6. Quality and Value: Moving toward a Cure
- Afterword: Redefining Thorough
- Notes
- Index