Fragmented : a doctor's quest to piece together American health care
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Top Floor
362.1042 Y927
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362.1042 Y927
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Book
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xvii, 252 pages ; 24 cm.
Street Date
2307
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index.
Description
An award-winning physician-writer reveals how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives-and how we can fix them. There's an unspoken assumption when you go to see a doctor: the doctor knows your medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But the reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic charts. The doctors we see change according to specialty, hospital shifts, or an insurer's whims. Stanford physician Ilana Yurkiewicz calls this fragmentation, and, she reveals, it's the central failure of health care today. In this gripping narrative from medicine's front lines, she shows how a system that doesn't talk to itself forces doctors, patients, and their loved ones to go to heroic lengths to bridge the gaps. With lives at stake and little other choice, we all do so-but the system is hanging by a thread, and we need better solutions. Radiantly humane, empowering, and ultimately hopeful, Fragmented is a prescription for what really needs fixing in modern medicine.,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Yurkiewicz, I. (2023). Fragmented: a doctor's quest to piece together American health care (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Yurkiewicz, Ilana. 2023. Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Yurkiewicz, Ilana. Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Yurkiewicz, Ilana. Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care First edition., W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
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