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Author Buchwald, Henry, author.

Title Healthcare upside down : a critical examination of policy and practice / Henry Buchwald
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (colour)
Contents Statistics -- The Language of Change -- The Medical School -- The Clinic and the Office -- The Hospital -- The Practice -- Payers -- Socialized Medicine -- Public Health, Research and Pandemics -- COVID-19 -- Doctor/Patient Relationships -- Where Do We Go from Here?
Summary Inspired by witnessing and experiencing the changes in healthcare and its delivery over the past 50 years, Dr. Henry Buchwald observes and comments on the current state of healthcare in the United States. His narrative includes the history, the historical data, and personal experiences of a healthcare system that has moved away from caring, first and foremost, for patients. This expensive, impersonal system, he believes may not be in the best interest either of the nation or of the people it purports to heal. As the title suggests, it appears that healthcare has been turned upside down to serve the administrators of the system and away from its basic function of offering the best care for patients. With this basic principle in mind, the topics presented in this book provide and discuss healthcare statistics and alterations to the language of medicine. The chapters themselves examine the transformations to the medical school, the clinic and the office, the hospital, and the practice. Additional chapters discuss the role of the payers, public health research, as well as pandemics, including COVID-19, the advantages and disadvantages of socialized medicine, as well as the broken doctor/patient relationship. Finally, Dr. Buchwald offers thoughts on the areas in which future healthcare efforts can most fruitfully be expended. Analysing todays pervading administrative domination of essentially every facet of healthcare, Healthcare Upside Down thoughtfully considers the variety of ways in which we can turn the current healthcare system right-side up to serve those who should be the ultimate beneficiaries all of us as patients, now and in the future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2022)
Subject Medical care -- United States.
Medicine
Medical care
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3031071638
9783031071638