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The Citizen Patient

Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System

by Nortin M. Hadler M.D.
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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.

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    April 1, 2013

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      • ISBN: 9781469607054
      • File size: 2739 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781469607054
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2013

      In this work, Hadler (medicine, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Stabbed in the Back) 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. The author uses his analytical skills and experience in the medical profession to reveal how stakeholders rely on consumer fear and gullibility to ensure steady profits from possibly unnecessary, even detrimental, products and procedures. Hadler also offers attainable solutions. Members of the general public who demand transparent medical information and responsible medical spending should be encouraged by what they find in this account. VERDICT Containing copious scientific analysis and cross references, this book will appeal to detail-oriented consumer health advocates and political advisers. Shannon Brownlee speaks to a broader audience in Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.--Chad Clark, Lamar State Coll. Lib., Port Arthur, TX

      Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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