The Citizen Patient
Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, not the System
Published on 1. August 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-4696-5466-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 reform might look like. Central to this vision is a shared understanding of the primacy of the relationship between doctor and patient. Hadler shows us that a new approach is necessary if we hope to improve the health of the populace. Rational health care, he argues, is far less expensive than the irrationality of the status quo.
Taking a critical view of how medical treatment, health-care finance, and attitudes about health, medicine, and disease play out in broad social and political settings, Hadler applies his wealth of experience and insight to these pressing issues, answering important questions for Citizen Patients and policy makers alike.
Taking a critical view of how medical treatment, health-care finance, and attitudes about health, medicine, and disease play out in broad social and political settings, Hadler applies his wealth of experience and insight to these pressing issues, answering important questions for Citizen Patients and policy makers alike.
Reviews / Votes
An eye-opener for those not privy to what goes on inside the once-hallowed halls of hospitals and health-care systems. It's also chock-full of information for citizens who want to take charge of their health for their own sake. Hadler's suggestions aren't radical; rather, they're rational: evidence-based medicine, stringent medical device licensing guidelines, and restoration of the physician-client partnership, among others." - ForeWord Reviews"Dr. Hadler's knowledge of conflicts endemic in U.S. health care is unparalleled. . . . A home run when. . . . [Hadler's] examples are so clear and his integrity impeccable such that even his critics have to admire his pluck." - New York Journal of Books
"This book takes the reader inside the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries, across borders, and, finally, where the healing actually takes place: inside the doctor's office." - Carolina Alumni Review
"This well-written, timely book will interest health sciences students, health care practitioners and policy makers, and laypersons. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers." - Choice
"Hadler offers a thoroughly researched argument that the American health-care system is largely profit driven and entails costs unmatched by those of other industrialized nations. . . . Hadler also offers attainable solutions." - Library Journal
"This is a fascinating and timely look at American health care and the healthcare business in the United States." - Nursing Standard
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4696-5466-9 (9781469654669)
DOI
10.5149/9781469607054_Hadler
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Nortin M. Hadler
The Citizen Patient
Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System
E-Book
04/2013
The University of North Carolina Press
€19.49
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Person
Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., M.A.C.P., M.A.C.R., F.A.C.O.E.M., is professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attending rheumatologist at UNC Hospitals. His most recent book is Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society.