The Citizen Patient: Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System

by Nortin M. Hadler

Book Overview

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469607042
• ISBN13: 9781469607047
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.5"