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020			_a9781469607047 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100	1		_aHadler, Nortin M.
245	1	4	_aThe citizen patient : _breforming health care for the sake of the patient, not the system / _cNortin M. Hadler.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aChapel Hill : _bUniversity of North Carolina Press, _cc2013.
300			_axi, 245 p. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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"--Provided by publisher.
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