Healing Healthcare
eBook - ePub

Healing Healthcare

How Doctors and Patients Can Heal Our Sick System

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Healing Healthcare

How Doctors and Patients Can Heal Our Sick System

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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Information

Publisher
Skyhorse
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781621534617

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Magic
  8. 2. The Healthcare Crisis
  9. 3. The Fall of Biomedicine
  10. 4. Not Your Parents’ Illnesses
  11. 5. The Healthcare Industry
  12. 6. How to Be a Doctor
  13. 7. Being a Doctor
  14. 8. Doctors and Suffering
  15. 9. When Doctor Meets Patient
  16. 10. We Can Do Better
  17. 11. Caregiver: The Invisible Patient
  18. 12. Suffering
  19. 13. Treating Suffering
  20. 14. Community as Medicine
  21. 15. The Embodied Mind
  22. 16. The D Word
  23. 17. Obamacare: A Half-Stepping Stone
  24. 18. Help Is On the Way
  25. 19. The Coming Change
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Notes
  28. Index