Our health care system is in need of care. Few candidates would argue.
Today, we address two of several levels where our current system is in dire need of repair - physicians and corporate health care - in a "novel" light - fiction! David Kerns M.D., professor of pediatrics at Stanford University Medical School, has uncovered and describes the underlying wound that afflicts physicians and administrators in their paradoxical quest, to both make a living and provide quality patient care. In his novel "Standard of Care," David narrates why we are bleeding as a nation, in a method those outside of health care can comprehend, and those on the inside will find heartwrenchingly honest and convicting. This book is a must read for anyone who wishes to address the future of health care in our country. Without this understanding, we are simply spending money to purchase bandaids to place over a deep wound that continues to bleed.
Several reader reviews of Standard of Care from Amazon are repeated below. Read more about Standard of Care and you'll appreciate why it does such a great job describing our health care system.
A call to arms! This novel pits a single protagonist against corporate medicine, one of the diseases that is making health care in the United States not the best in the world but certainly the most expensive. Dr. Daniel Fazen is the prototype of a doctor you know and trust, someone who may have taken care of you when sick (or well), and someone you can immediately like. His battle with himself and with the forces of for-profit medicine make for a fast-paced and exciting novel. It is also a call to arms for those who feel we must change the way we deliver health care in this country, soon, before it is too late. A timely subject as we approach the next election.
A call to arms! This novel pits a single protagonist against corporate medicine, one of the diseases that is making health care in the United States not the best in the world but certainly the most expensive. Dr. Daniel Fazen is the prototype of a doctor you know and trust, someone who may have taken care of you when sick (or well), and someone you can immediately like. His battle with himself and with the forces of for-profit medicine make for a fast-paced and exciting novel. It is also a call to arms for those who feel we must change the way we deliver health care in this country, soon, before it is too late. A timely subject as we approach the next election.
- Robert M. Reece MD, North Falmouth, Massachusetts
Send it to Your Congressional Representatives! If you are concerned about the state of the U.S. healthcare system, this book is for you. We are the richest country in the world, but one third of us are uninsured or under-insured, leading to denial of care and many preventable deaths. That's just not right. Standard of Care is a fast read with engaging characters involved in a medical quagmire--painfully familiar to many of us--which sucks you right in. Written by an acclaimed doctor, it helped me understand the myriad conflicts of interest between patients, their primary care physicians, the health insurance companies, and hospital corporations. I felt like I was in the shoes of the hospital executive who must choose between profit and optimal patient care. This "inside look" at our broken healthcare system left me more committed than ever to vote for presidential and state candidates who advocate fundamental health care reform. Surprisingly, after reading Standard of Care, I felt like one person really can make a difference to help solve this crisis.
Send it to Your Congressional Representatives! If you are concerned about the state of the U.S. healthcare system, this book is for you. We are the richest country in the world, but one third of us are uninsured or under-insured, leading to denial of care and many preventable deaths. That's just not right. Standard of Care is a fast read with engaging characters involved in a medical quagmire--painfully familiar to many of us--which sucks you right in. Written by an acclaimed doctor, it helped me understand the myriad conflicts of interest between patients, their primary care physicians, the health insurance companies, and hospital corporations. I felt like I was in the shoes of the hospital executive who must choose between profit and optimal patient care. This "inside look" at our broken healthcare system left me more committed than ever to vote for presidential and state candidates who advocate fundamental health care reform. Surprisingly, after reading Standard of Care, I felt like one person really can make a difference to help solve this crisis.
- A book for our times. Amazon Reviewer, San Diego
Podcasts of David Kerns interviews on New Dimensions Radio, both a short cafe interview, and an hour long discussion of the critical problems in our health care system, are available in mp3 format. Further information and links to articles regarding the U.S. Health Care Crisis can be found at David Kerns website. For information on primary cancer prevention, the "cure" for our tragic cancer rate in the U.S. - one in two men and one in three women are expected to develop cancer - read Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time.
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