Title:
Old and sick in America : the journey through the health care system / Muriel R. Gillick, M.D.
Author:
Gillick, Muriel R., 1951- author.
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Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Call Number:
RA413.7.A4 G55 2017
Abstract:
"Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the office to the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, and examining the influence of forces as diverse as pharmaceutical corporations, device manufacturers, and health insurance companies on their experience"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781469635231
9781469635248
Series:
Studies in social medicine
Studies in social medicine.
Physical Description:
xxii, 300 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents:
The office -- Going to the doctor -- The lay of the land -- From the outside in -- The march of time, 1965-2015 -- The hospital -- Entering the palace of technology -- The varieties of hospital experience -- The hospital through other eyes -- The transformation of the American hospital, 1965-2015 -- The skilled nursing facility -- Going to rehab -- Different SNFs, different miffs -- Movers and shapers -- Now and then.
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