Curing Medicare : A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It /
Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a...
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Ithaca :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : my boss
- Defining quality : the quest for numerical perfection
- Defining thorough : finding and fixing everything
- Excessive specialization, expectation, and litigation
- Hospitalization : the pinnacle of thorough
- Long term care : the unwitting geriatric ICU
- Quality and value : moving toward a cure
- Afterword : redefining thorough.