At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients...and What We Can Do About It Pdf

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Release: 2001-10-23
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0742501310
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

At the Front Lines of Medicine pdf
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For three decades Dr. Howard Waitzkin has worked "at the front line of medicine." As a practitioner of internal medicine and primary care and as a sociologist, he has devoted much of his career to improving health services, especially for poor and underserved patients—migrant workers in California, immigrants living in Southwestern communities, and patients in developing countries of Latin America.
In his latest book Dr. Waitzkin offers a comprehensive analysis of the current problems of costs, coverage, and access to medical care in the United States. He takes the reader into the examination room with vivid patient-doctor encounters that portray dilemmas patients frequently face.
Many stories are too familiar in this era of rising costs and declining health coverage: A 31-year old diabetic man who died when his Medicaid co-payment spiraled out of reach; a 48-year old woman whose breast cancer metastasized as she waited funding for an outpatient biopsy; a 63-year old man st Download At the Front Lines of Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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