What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care - Couverture rigide

Loxterkamp, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 047211865X ISBN 13 : 9780472118656

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2013

Synopsis

Primary care has come into the limelight with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the unchecked and unsustainable rise in American health care expenditures, and the crest of Baby Boomers who are now Medicare-eligible and entering the most health care–intensive period of their lives. Yet how much is really known about primary care? What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care is a look at the past, present, and future of general practice, which is not only the predecessor to the modern primary care movement, but its foundation. Through memoir and conversation, Dr. David Loxterkamp reflects on the heroes and role models who drew him to family medicine and on his many years in family practice in a rural Maine community, and provides a prescription for change in the way that doctors and patients approach their shared contract for good health and a happy life. This book will be useful to those on both sides of primary care, doctors and patients alike.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Loxterkamp, MD, has been a family practice physician in Belfast, Maine, for more than 30 years. He is a noted expert on family practice and speaks widely on medical policy and the crisis in primary care delivery. He is the author of A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor (University Press of New England, 1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 047211865X
• ISBN 13: 9780472118656
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible