Doctored - 9780374141394
Un libro in lingua di Sandeep Jauhar edito da Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014
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A memoir-exposé of the health-care system by a cardiologist and much-praised author
Doctored is the shocking follow-up to Intern, Sandeep Jauhar’s widely praised chronicle of the harsh realities of a hospital residency. Now the director of the Heart Failure Program at a Long Island hospital, Jauhar uses his own story as a scalpel to lay open the American health-care system.
The patient is ill indeed. A perverse system forces doctors to prescribe unnecessary tests and participate in an elaborate system of cronyism just to cover costs and protect themselves from malpractice suits. Jauhar reports cases where a single patient might see fifteen specialists in one hospital stay, fail to receive a full picture of his actual condition, and leave with a bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Jauhar himself wrestles with his conscience as, struggling to make ends meet, he moonlights for a practitioner who charges exorbitant fees for tests of questionable value.
Doctored is a cry for reform; a fascinating look at what really goes on in examining rooms, ORs, and your own doctor’s mind; and, most of all, a deeply personal and unsparing act of introspection by a physician who wants to return meaning and moral grounding to a noble profession that has lost its way. It is certain to kick off controversy and heated debate at a time when the dysfunctionalities of our health-care system remain at the top of the nation’s agenda.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Doctored
- Sottotitolo: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Sandeep Jauhar
- Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Collana: Farrar Straus & Giroux (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 19 Agosto '14
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : Physicians United States Autobiography Delivery of Health Care trends United States
- Pagine: 268
- EAN-13: 9780374141394