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Author Lazris, Andrew, author.

Title Curing Medicare : a doctor's view on how our health care system is failing older Americans and how we can fix it / Andy Lazris ; with a foreword by Shannon Brownlee.

Publication Info. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  368.382 LAZRIS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  368.382 L45    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  368.426 LAZ    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  368.382 LAZRIS    Check Shelf
Edition Revised edition.
Description xiii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series The culture and politics of health care work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Medicare.
Older people -- Medical care -- United States.
Geriatrics -- United States.
Geriatrics. (OCoLC)fst00941257
Medicare. (OCoLC)fst01014815
Older people -- Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01199115
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9781501702778 (cloth alk. paper)
1501702777 (cloth alk. paper)
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