Guarded Prognosis: A Doctor and His Patients Talk About Chronic Disease and How to Cope With It [NOOK Book]

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Overview

15 years ago the noted physician, Dr. Michael Lockshin, Professor of Medicine and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical School and Director of the Barbara Volcker Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery wrote Guarded Prognosis, a book about the health care system from the point of view of a physician with broad experience in treating chronic disease.

Michael Lockshin is one of America’s preeminent experts in the long-term care of chronically ill patients. He is a pioneer in solving health-care issues that arise with the illnesses on which he has done his most renowned ...
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Overview

15 years ago the noted physician, Dr. Michael Lockshin, Professor of Medicine and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical School and Director of the Barbara Volcker Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery wrote Guarded Prognosis, a book about the health care system from the point of view of a physician with broad experience in treating chronic disease.

Michael Lockshin is one of America’s preeminent experts in the long-term care of chronically ill patients. He is a pioneer in solving health-care issues that arise with the illnesses on which he has done his most renowned research—systemic lupus erythematosus, Antiphospholipid syndrome, and other autoimmune diseases which especially afflict women.

Guarded Prognosis has been re-issued as an eBook. 15 years after its first publication, the reader will be struck by how far the we have come—in terms of electronic records and the new hospitalist system—but also by how little has changed for patients with chronic illness navigating the U.S. healthcare system.

Guarded Prognosis is newly relevant in the light of the acrimonious debate over “Obamacare” whose passage Dr. Lockshin heartily endorses as a route to the universal health coverage so desperately needed by those with chronic illness.

These affecting stories of chronically ill patients and the policy lessons learned from their experience make clear how important it is to change our inefficient, costly, and often inhumane healthcare system. Otherwise, each of us could be at risk not only from disease, but from fragmented and costly healthcare.

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Drawing on some 35 years of medical experience, Dr. Lockshin writes knowingly and sympathetically of patients who need long-term, expensive care, whose problems may require speedy treatment by specialists. … He outlines what he perceives as the elements of an ideal system. … [arguing] that decision-making criteria concerning health-care resources and spending must include compassion as well as cost-benefit.
Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly
With 35 years' experience as a physician, Lockshin remembers the days before Medicare, Medicaid and HMOs. Working particularly with lupus patients, he has accrued vast knowledge of chronic illness, insurance and hospital administration. Here, in the voice of a caring doctor whose primary concern is always the welfare of his patients, Lockshin provides moving human case histories that illustrate current issues and dilemmas in American medicine.
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William Beatty
Lockshin argues that governments, insurance companies, hospitals, and HMOs should listen to individuals rather than the impersonal figures aggregates produce. Many of his patients have lupus, arthritis, or scleroderma. … Since HMOs have come into the picture … doctors are being forced to think of each … patient in terms of whether … [treatment is going to be an occasion of profit or of loss, and he asks, “Are you sure that you know for whom your doctor works?&#

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013005471
  • Publisher: Custom Databanks, Inc.
  • Publication date: 1/16/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 908,979
  • File size: 339 KB
  • Items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses.

Meet the Author

Dr. Michael D. Lockshin is a pioneer in solving health-care issues that arise with the illnesses on which he has done his most renowned research - systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, and other autoimmune diseases which especially afflict women.

Currently, Dr. Lockshin is Director of the Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Disease at the Hospital for Special Surgery and Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics-Gynecology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York.

He is the immediate past editor in chief of Arthritis & Rheumatism, the official publication of the American College of Rheumatology. See Dr. Lockshin's website http://www.MichaelLockshin.com for more information about Dr. Lockshin and his work.
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