Curing Medicare : A Doctor’s View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It / / Andy Lazris ; with a foreword by Shannon Brownlee.

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 : : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,, 2016.
©2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Revised edition.
Language:English
Series:Culture and politics of health care work.
Physical Description:1 online resource (263 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : my boss
  • Defining quality : the quest for numerical perfection
  • Defining thorough : finding and fixing everything
  • Excessive specialization, expectation, and litigation
  • Hospitalization : the pinnacle of thorough
  • Long term care : the unwitting geriatric ICU
  • Quality and value : moving toward a cure
  • Afterword : redefining thorough.