The Doctor Crisis: How Physicians Can, and Must, Lead the Way to Better Health Care [Kindle Edition]
Author: Jack Cochran | Language: English | ISBN: B00IHGVSGO | Format: PDF, EPUB
The Doctor Crisis: How Physicians Can, and Must, Lead the Way to Better Health Care
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Calming fears, alleviating suffering, enhancing and saving lives—this is what motivates doctors virtually every single day. When the structure and culture in which physicians work are well aligned, being a doctor is a most rewarding job. But something has gone wrong in the physician world, and it is urgent that we fix it.
Fundamental flaws in the US health care system make it more difficult and less rewarding than ever to be a doctor. The convergence of a complex amalgam of forces prevents primary care and specialty physicians from doing what they most want to do: Put their patients first at every step in the care process every time. Barriers include regulation, bureaucracy, the liability burden, reduced reimbursements, and much more. Physicians must accept the responsibility for guiding our nation toward a better health care delivery system, but the pathway forward—amidst jarring changes in our health care system—is not always clear.
In The Doctor Crisis, Dr. Jack Cochran, executive director of The Permanente Federation, and author Charles Kenney show how we can improve health care on a grassroots level, regardless of political policy disputes, by improving conditions for physicians and asking them to take on broader accountability; by calling on physicians to be effective leaders as well as excellent clinicians. The authors clarify the necessary steps required to enable physicians to focus on patient care and offer concrete ideas for establishing systems that place patients’ needs above all else. Cochran and Kenney make a compelling case that fixing the doctor crisis is a prerequisite to achieving access to quality and affordable health care throughout the United States.
Direct download links available for The Doctor Crisis: How Physicians Can, and Must, Lead the Way to Better Health Care Fundamental flaws in the US health care system make it more difficult and less rewarding than ever to be a doctor. The convergence of a complex amalgam of forces prevents primary care and specialty physicians from doing what they most want to do: Put their patients first at every step in the care process every time. Barriers include regulation, bureaucracy, the liability burden, reduced reimbursements, and much more. Physicians must accept the responsibility for guiding our nation toward a better health care delivery system, but the pathway forward—amidst jarring changes in our health care system—is not always clear.
In The Doctor Crisis, Dr. Jack Cochran, executive director of The Permanente Federation, and author Charles Kenney show how we can improve health care on a grassroots level, regardless of political policy disputes, by improving conditions for physicians and asking them to take on broader accountability; by calling on physicians to be effective leaders as well as excellent clinicians. The authors clarify the necessary steps required to enable physicians to focus on patient care and offer concrete ideas for establishing systems that place patients’ needs above all else. Cochran and Kenney make a compelling case that fixing the doctor crisis is a prerequisite to achieving access to quality and affordable health care throughout the United States.
- File Size: 442 KB
- Print Length: 242 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1610394437
- Publisher: PublicAffairs; 1 edition (May 6, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00IHGVSGO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
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This is a very surprising book. I expected more of an academic book but this is a compelling story. As a surgeon, Dr. Cochran brings years of real world experience to the book. His anecdotes from his career are riveting. I was struck by how powerful a case the authors make to support the contention that there is a doctor crisis in the U. S. Some of the stats and research are really disturbing. Their basic thesis seems to be that the doctor crisis is a threat to the profession as well as to patients. With a crisis why should young men and women choose medicine as a career? And if so many physicians are burned out and unhappy -- deeply so in many cases -- isn't that something we patients should worry about? It sounds like a dark book but it is not in fact. Dr. Cochran cites a number of examples of health care organizations throughout the country that are making real progress in improving the working life for physicians and allowing them to escape some of the burdensome bureaucracy to focus on their patients. The examples are great and very real. Some are in California, Minnesota, Ohio, Washington, and , one, I am happy to say, is where I get my care in Boston and I can attest that they do in fact do a first rate job. I have purchased a copy of this book for my doctor. I think every doctor should read it, especially those in primary care.By Anne
This is a serious book written by a doctor who has been in the trenches and worked as a top level administrator. The success he has achieved has to be acknowledged, thereby giving credence to his arguments that doctors should be allowed to practice medicine and to have a large voice in public health policy without the interference of bureaucrats, insurance companies, and drug company lobbyists.By Michael J Boyle
This is not to say Dr. Cochran is an apologist for the medical profession. He believes that doctors must be more flexible, willing to embrace technology, and more humble in their approach to patients, nurses, and any one else with whom they work who does not happen to have a medical degree.
Overall, this is an extremely balanced approach to a health care crisis from someone who has seen it from different angles. His management approach, which I would describe as a hermeneutic of 'listening' was particularly refreshing and enlightening to me.
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