Side Effects
eBook - ePub

Side Effects

How Our Healthcare Lost its Way – And How We Fix it

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

Side Effects

How Our Healthcare Lost its Way – And How We Fix it

About this book

***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick*** 'David Haslam is uniquely placed to reflect on how healthcare has lost its way, what needs to be done to fix it and why all of us are responsible for doing so... The importance and timeliness of his messages shines through.' Dr Phil Hammond 'A fascinating and important book.' Dr Amanda Brown With a single drug in the UK currently costing £340, 000 per patient per year, or a gene therapy in the USA being costed at $1.2million, who should get such treatments, and how can we begin to afford them? Should we all be entitled to timely mental health therapy? How should we care for our old? As we grapple with the world's worst pandemic for a century, our minds are on our health more than ever. But what should we rightfully expect of doctors? In this original and thought-provoking book, Sir David Haslam explores what good healthcare should achieve and asks how we pay for it. Informed by patient stories and data from across the world - from US big pharma to Britain's NHS - this is an urgent and often moving examination of our most important asset: our health.

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Information

Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781786495365
eBook ISBN
9781786495389
Subtopic
Caregiving

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Chapter 1: We’ve Got a Problem
  7. Chapter 2: How Did We Get Here?
  8. Chapter 3: Paying the Price
  9. Chapter 4: Why Is it All So Expensive?
  10. Chapter 5: Valuing a Life
  11. Chapter 6: Better than Cure
  12. Chapter 7: Overtreatment and Overdiagnosis
  13. Chapter 8: Hearts and Minds
  14. Chapter 9: Age and Ageing
  15. Chapter 10: And in the End ...
  16. Chapter 11: Care in the Future
  17. Chapter 12: A Way Forward
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Endnotes
  20. Index