Curing Medicare : a doctor's view on how our health care system is failing older Americans and how we can fix it /
Andy Lazris ; with a foreword by Shannon Brownlee.
- pages cm.
- The culture and politics of health care work .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781501702778
2015041841
Medicare. Older people--Medical care--United States. Geriatrics--United States.