medicine cabinets
flatlined resuscitating american medicine
flatlined lifts the veil of secrecy on twenty first century health care and delves into the realities of good people caught in a bad medical system . dr. guy l. clifton a practitioner as well as a policy advocate reveals first hand accounts of needless tragedy such as the young man who died after a car wreck for lack of a bed in a qualified hospital and the surgeon who was dejected by the scarcity of resources needed to enable him to perform heart surgery on an uninsured man . p arguing that a lack of coordinated care and quality medical practice benchmarks result in high levels of redundancy and ineffectiveness clifton proposes that the key to reducing health care costs improving quality and financially protecting the uninsured is to reduce wastefulness and offers a solution for achieving success . p flatlined sounds the warning call by 2018 medicare and medicaid will consume about one third of the federal budget . american businesses now pay three times as much of their payroll for health care as global competitors expected to worsen as health care grows at twice the rate of the u.s. economy . based on his years of experience in policy and medicine clifton offers an attainable solution through the development of an american medical quality system .
addresses the causes and consequences of the breakdown in american health care and proposes a national medical quality system that would be dedicated to reducing waste and improving the quality of medicine .