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Healthcare in the Trenches
Healthcare From The Trenches: An Insider Account of the Complex Barriers of U.S. Healthcare from the Providers and Patients' Perspective
The U.S. healthcare system is in crisis.
As Americans, we’re facing serious problems – not only with skyrocketing healthcare costs but also lack of patient access and inefficient delivery. Now with the frightening Coronavirus pandemic that is further taxing our healthcare system – and consequently, our economy – we are seeing these issues amplified. Despite all the political debates and media coverage on healthcare policy and reform, there is always one glaring omission: feedback from the people in the trenches – the doctors and other healthcare professionals who actually provide care to the patients.
This book is written from a doctor’s perspective, by Alejandro Badia, M.D., F.A.C.S. He didn’t want to write this book but felt he had to because of the incredible problems he sees every day in getting the patient the care they need; and, as an expert, his treatment plans are constantly second-guessed and obstructed by the system which has a near-zero understanding of the problem that the patient faces. It became unbearable for Dr. Badia to continue to practice without calling out what is happening, every day, as the norm, and not the exception anymore.
Dr. Badia has been a practicing orthopedic surgeon for three decades and is the founder of OrthoNOW® clinics in South Florida. He has been in the trenches with our broken healthcare system since 1989.
Medicine, once a noble calling, as evidenced by The Hippocratic Oath (Do No Harm), has transformed into an oppressive burdensome system for both doctors and patients. Non-Medical Experts hired by the Insurance Companies with zero medical training, and without any degrees or knowledge (in most cases) are calling the shots and continue to interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, delay and prevent the delivery of care, and present an obstacle to innovations that would improve patient outcomes and reduce overall healthcare costs.
This is a life and death matter and people are dying because of this flawed system.
Since the implementation of Obamacare, healthcare in America has devolved into a bureaucratic nightmare. What began as incremental interference in the relationship between doctor and patient with the passage of The Medicare Act of 1965 is now an impenetrable barrier made up of governmental and healthcare insurance industry red tape. The result? Higher costs and unnecessary inefficiencies.
What can we do about it?
First, we must understand and recognize the underlying problems. Healthcare from the Trenches will give you an in-depth behind the scenes look at our system from a practicing doctors’ perspective along with contributors ranging from fellow colleagues to beleaguered patients, who offer their insights and share their personal stories to illustrate the inherent shortcomings in the U.S. healthcare industry as well as proposed solutions and suggestions for actions every one of us can take to enact positive, long-lasting change.
It’s time for every American to understand and be educated about the root causes of our healthcare crisis and demand meaningful reform to improve healthcare efficiencies in America.
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Chris Childs is an unusually talented young man. A post-doctoral fellow at a prestigious medical center near San Francisco, he is also a gifted musician. It is his music that attracts Erin Leahy to him. The attraction is mutual and powerful. But the man who introduces them was a former rival of Chris and when he learns that he has been replaced in Erin’s affection, he is furious. In retaliation he entices her to try a new experience, which she learns, too late, is heroin. Horrified at first, she succumbs and becomes addicted, unaware of the reason for her unusual susceptibility. She is able to hide her addiction from Chris until she accidentally overdoses and has to be hospitalized. After her release, a struggle is waged between the power of opiate addiction and the medical knowledge that guides its treatment. When Erin relapses and flees, Chris must seek the guidance of a wise man, a pioneer in the use of methadone in the treatment of heroin addiction. The stakes in this struggle could not be higher. Even a momentary lapse may be fatal. The story is a retelling of the ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in the context of a very current, complex, social and medical problem. Drama
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Anyone who has seen the blockbuster movies The Thomas Crown Affair or Bullitt will want to read The Pursuit of Happiness, a new novel by the same writer, Alan Trustman. The highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood at one time, Trustman now turns his pen to fiction, which reads and moves with the same crime thriller speed as his movies.
From the opening chapter we are rocketed into the world of a Boston bad boy who is recruited to work for the government.
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Fall in love with India and the bustling city of Mumbai in Ajay Kaul’s book of short stories, Mumbai Matinee, truth-based fiction that acts as both memoir and travelogue. Mumbai Matinee portrays the veritable feast of the commerce, people, and danger which make up India’s most populous city and financial capital. Filled with eight interconnected short stories based on Kaul’s life and work there, this charming book is a terrific pleasure read and highly recommended if you plan to visit.
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Terror. Fear Prejudice. Jonathan Hunter, CIA Consultant, stumbles on a plot sparking backlash across America and threatens another war. There’s his dead brother. A beautiful Persian refugee. Iran. Russian. Prejudice, hate, and fear vent everywhere—is this who we’ve become? America’s heading back to war. Someone has to stop it.
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Terror. Fear Prejudice. Jonathan Hunter, CIA Consultant, stumbles on a plot sparking backlash across America and threatens another war. There’s his dead brother. A beautiful Persian refugee. Iran. Russian. Prejudice, hate, and fear vent everywhere—is this who we’ve become? America’s heading back to war. Someone has to stop it.
find out more at http://www.tjoconnor.com/ Thriller/Political thriller
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Billionaire playboy Giovanni Ferraro couldn’t ride the shadows. So when a dangerous stalker threatens waitress Sasha Provis he has to depend on his assassin’s skills to keep her safe. Sasha knows she’s in trouble. Not only from the bizarre stalker, but from her unwanted attraction to a man she knows is dangerous. But, something pulls her toward him. Something she can’t explain, and can’t deny. From New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan a new Shadow Riders novel. Find out more at http://www.ChristineFeehan.com paranormal romance/thriller
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Billionaire playboy Giovanni Ferraro couldn’t ride the shadows. So when a dangerous stalker threatens waitress Sasha Provis he has to depend on his assassin’s skills to keep her safe. Sasha knows she’s in trouble. Not only from the bizarre stalker, but from her unwanted attraction to a man she knows is dangerous. But, something pulls her toward him. Something she can’t explain, and can’t deny. From New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan a new Shadow Riders novel. Find out more at http://www.ChristineFeehan.com paranormal romance/thriller
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The present volume offers a new approach in the quest to discover the truth about nature. The main idea is to proceed, not by way of observation, but rationally by working out the implications of a formal signature of the world’s existence, an algebraic form called the Law of Laws. Find out more at http:/www.principleoftruerepresentation.com Non-fiction, philosophy, metaphysics
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