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(More customer reviews)Jeffrey Bauer really knows what he's talking about. All it takes is one trip to the clinic or hospital, and you know there's something drastically wrong with the delivery of health care in America. If you're insured, it's scary. If you're not insured, God help you!
Bauer offers a commonsense solution that will lower cost and increase service. And we know he's right. Since this book was originally written four years ago--although recently updated--much of what he's advocated has already (but slowly) begun to occur.
Every health care professional should read this book. It should be a required text in every allied health care provider school in the country. It should be a required text in every medical school in the country as well. But it won't be, for although it is not anti-doctor it challenges the status quo. And that always scares those on top.
An empowering book for those who want to see real change in health care.
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When it comes to managed care, do American's really have the choices they deserve? In today's healthcare environment, consumers' only choices are selecting a healthcare plan, designating a primary care doctor out of that plan, or opting not to have a plan and pay the high cost of healthcare out of their pockets.And yet there is another little-known choice that ought to be available to the consumer-qualified non-physician practitioners. Nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, clinical pharmacists, and specialized therapists are trained experts in their specific areas of practice, frequently costing much less than the physician and always providing care of equal or better quality. This better deal will not only benefit the consumer, but the health systems and health plans that makes these certified non-physicians available to their patients.
Not What the Doctor Ordered, revised once again opens the eyes of consumers, providers, and third party insurers to the vision of low cost, high quality alternative choices when it comes to delivering care.
Written by medical economist and healthcare futurist, Dr.JeffBauer, Not What the Doctor Ordered, revised explains how opening upthe healthcare market and creating competition can achieve the goalsof health reform and managed care-without raising costs or imposingmore restrictions.
New to Not What the Doctor Ordered, revised: *Clinton health reform-what exactly went wrong and why *Managed care- how it will evolve*Alternative medicine-steps in the right direction *Technology-the growth of telemedicine and integrated information systems*What's ahead for healthcare in 2000 and beyond
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