TY - BOOK AU - Lazris,Andrew TI - Curing Medicare: a doctor's view on how our health care system is failing older Americans and how we can fix it T2 - The culture and politics of health care work SN - 9781501702778 AV - RA412.3 .L393 2016 U1 - 368.38/200973 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Ithaca PB - ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press KW - Medicare KW - Older people KW - Medical care KW - United States KW - Geriatrics N1 - 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 ER -