Health Care in a Sick System: A Clinician's Perspective of Prospects for Change in America

by John Geyman

Topics include major trends affecting health care, private verses public sectors in public health, improving access to health care, the aging population and its affects on health care, and principles and pathways for health care reform.

* Written from a clinical point of view
* Unique perspective sheds light on the urgency of health care reform
* Provides a snapshot of our changed and changing system

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750673222
• ISBN13: 9780750673228
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, Informative, and very Readable

This book reads like a novel but is thorough as a textbook. It is well written and thorough in its explanations of the various facets that affect the US health system.A must read for students, practioners, or administrators.

Something that every practitioner should read

This is a tome that should be in every Family Physician's library. It is very current and shows in great detail where American medicine has and is failing to care for the patients most in need. There are world-wide comparisons and also intelligent remedies offered that are founded on experience, the only way to analyze and understand the real problems. There are a plethora of footnotes with credit given to thousands of medical authors and this only widens and increases my respect for this author. Change is inevitable and here is a solution.