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Sick and tired : how America's health care system fails its patients / Helene Jorgensen.

Title
Sick and tired : how America's health care system fails its patients / Helene Jorgensen.
Author
Jorgensen, Helene.
Publication
Sausalito, CA : PoliPointPress : Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services, c2010.

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xiii, 205 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
Sick and Tired examines the U.S. health care system from a patients perspective. It tells the story of the authors struggle to receive proper medical treatment for Lyme disease and to have her health insurance company pay for an ever-expanding set of medical bills. Jorgensen uses her expertise as an economist to examine the reasons that the health care system fails patients.
Alternative Title
  • Sick & tired
  • How America's health care system fails its patients
Subject
  • Jorgensen, Helene > Health
  • Health Policy
  • Health Expenditures
  • Health Care Sector
  • Health Care Reform
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Lyme disease > Patients > United States > Biography
  • Medical care > United States
  • United States
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Paradise valley -- Health insurance industry : diagnosis -- Doctors : medical opinion -- Drugs : quantity override -- Hospitals : standby surgery -- Laboratories : blood suckers -- Lyme disease : two standards of care -- Health care reform : recovery.
ISBN
  • 9780982417119 (alk. paper)
  • 098241711X (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009050915
OCLC
429021806
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library