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Curing Medicare - Andy Lazris

Curing Medicare

A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It

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Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2016
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-0277-8 (ISBN)
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Lazris offers straightforward solutions to ensure Medicare's solvency through sensible cost-effective plans that do not restrict patient choice or negate the doctor-patient...
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 disease to be cured; it is a life stage to be lived. Lazris argues that aggressive treatments cannot change that fact but only get in the way and decrease quality of life. Unfortunately, Medicare’s payment structure and rules deprive the elderly of the chance to pursue less aggressive care, which often yields the most humane and effective results. Medicare encourages and will pay more readily for hospitalization than for palliative and home care. It encourages and pays for high-tech assaults on disease rather than for the primary care that can make a real difference in the lives of the elderly.


Lazris offers straightforward solutions to ensure Medicare’s solvency through sensible cost-effective plans that do not restrict patient choice or negate the doctor-patient relationship. Using both data and personal stories, he shows how Medicare needs to change in structure and purpose as the population ages, the physician pool becomes more specialized, and new medical technology becomes available. Curing Medicare demonstrates which medical interventions (medicines, tests, procedures) work and which can be harmful in many common conditions in the elderly; the harms and benefits of hospitalization; the current culture of long-term care; and how Medicare often promotes care that is ineffective, expensive, and contrary to what many elderly patients and their families really want.

Andy Lazris, MD, is a primary care physician specializing in geriatrics and currently directs a group practice in Columbia. Maryland. He is Medical Director of several assisted living facilities and retirement communities. He is the coauthor of Interpreting Health Risks and Benefits: A Practical Guide to Facilitate Doctor– Patient Communication. Visit his blog at www.curingmedicare.com. Shannon Brownlee is a journalist and the acting director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation. She is the author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.

Foreword by Shannon Brownlee

Acknowledgments

Introduction: My Boss

1. Defining Quality: The Quest for Numerical Perfection

2. Defining Thorough: Finding and Fixing Everything

3. Excessive Specialization, Expectation, and Litigation

4. Hospitalization: The Pinnacle of Thorough

5. Long-Term Care: The Unwitting Geriatric ICU

6. Quality and Value: Moving toward a Cure

Afterword: Redefining Thorough

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Vorwort Shannon Brownlee
Zusatzinfo 2 Figures
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Geriatrie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
ISBN-10 1-5017-0277-7 / 1501702777
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-0277-8 / 9781501702778
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