
- 168 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Not long ago, "bedside manner" was a physician's most potent medicine. Now that skill has dwindled to bland, generic amiability, and has been all but lost behind today's compelling healthcare technology. The bedside manner's shrinkage would be tolerable if medical high tech could cure everything, but these amazing tools are alarmingly cost-ineffective in treating most patients—those who suffer from chronic, incurable illnesses and the effects of detrimental lifestyles. Paying far too much for too little return, Americans are understandably demanding healthcare reform, which we're told lies in rearranging national finances. But beyond financial adjustment, authentic reform will have to come from reinstating ancient, intimate healing relationships between patient and doctor. Healing Healthcare describes how we arrived at this sorry impasse and where we need to go with a system that is as damaging to its doctors as it is to patients. Dr. Jeff Kane pinpoints and examines America's love affair with medical technology, insistence on evading death at any cost, and practice of enabling unhealthy lifestyles. At its heart, Healing Healthcare shows that healing can begin only once doctors see patients clearly as individuals, and that through intimate contact, suffering can be productively treated.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Magic
- 2. The Healthcare Crisis
- 3. The Fall of Biomedicine
- 4. Not Your Parents’ Illnesses
- 5. The Healthcare Industry
- 6. How to Be a Doctor
- 7. Being a Doctor
- 8. Doctors and Suffering
- 9. When Doctor Meets Patient
- 10. We Can Do Better
- 11. Caregiver: The Invisible Patient
- 12. Suffering
- 13. Treating Suffering
- 14. Community as Medicine
- 15. The Embodied Mind
- 16. The D Word
- 17. Obamacare: A Half-Stepping Stone
- 18. Help Is On the Way
- 19. The Coming Change
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index