Old and Sick in America (eBook)

The Journey through the Health Care System

Muriel R. Gillick (Autor)

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2017
326 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3525-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the doctor's office to the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, and examining the influence of forces as diverse as pharmaceutical corporations, device manufacturers, and health insurance companies on their experience. A scholar who has practiced medicine for over thirty years, Gillick offers readers an informed and straightforward view of health care from the ground up, revealing that many crucial medical decisions are based not on what is best for the patient but rather on outside forces, sometimes to the detriment of patient health and quality of life. Gillick suggests a broadly imagined patient-centered reform of the health care system with Medicare as the engine of change, a transformation that would be mediated through accountability, cost-effectiveness, and culture change.

Autor

Muriel R. Gillick, M.D., is a member of the Division of Aging at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Social Medicine
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Social Medicine
• Zusatzinfo: notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Schlagworte: aging • commodification of health care • complex adaptive system • end-of-life care • Geriatric Assessment • Geriatrics • government regulation of health care • health care for the elderly • history of medicine • Hospitals • medical care of the elderly • medical device industry • medical ecosystem • medical-industrial complex • medicare • Nursing Homes • office practice of medicine • over-treatment • Palliative Care • patient experience of illness • Pharmaceutical Industry • Physicians • quality of life • quality of medical care • social determinants of health care
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3525-9 / 1469635259
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3525-5 / 9781469635255