Curing Medicare A Doctor’s View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: NEH CARES grant funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Lazris, Andrew, author (author), Brownlee, Shannon, contributor (contributor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2016.
Edición:Revised edition
Colección:Culture and politics of health care work.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649802206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.