Out of Practice Fighting for Primary Care Medicine in America

Name: Out of Practice Fighting for Primary Care Medicine in America
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ISBN: 9780801449765

ISBN-10: 0801449766

ISBN-13: 9780801449765

Edition: 2011

Authors: Frederick M. Barken

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Primary care medicine, as we know and remember it, is in crisis. While policymakers, government administrators, and the health insurance industry pay lip service to the personal relationship between physician and patient, dissatisfaction and disaffection run rampant among primary care doctors, and medical students steer clear in order to pursue more lucrative specialties. Patients feel helpless, well aware that they are losing a valued close connection as health care steadily becomes more transactional than relational. The thin-margin efficiency, rapid pace, and high volume demanded by the new health care economics do not work for primary care, an inherently slower, more personal, and…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Doctor Is Out



A First Visit with the Doctor



ï¿½Tell Him Not to Driveï¿½



Polypharmacy: The Problem with Pills



Poly-Doctoring: A Doctor for Every Disease



A Bubble Off



On the Road Again



The Supply Side



All in the Family



Practice/Malpractice



You Get What You Pay For


Epilogue


Notes


References


Index