Patient's Health Care Survival Guide: Reclaiming the Right of the Patient to Be an Equal Partner in the Delivery of Health Care

by Susan Wright LCSW Ph.D.

Overview

The book is a story of one patient's remarkable journey from victim, to observer, to program solver. While struggling to save her life against caregivers who wouldn't listen, she realized that she was only one amongst many patients trapped in the same depersonalizing system. What began as a simple attempt at survival, over time became a desire to do something for others in the same boat. She decided to create a how-to self-care-healing guide for patients based upon her own personal experience during the three and a half months of futile attempts to put a name to her mystery disease. Later, she turned her attention to finding the means to reform the system itself. Having been exposed to all the chinks in a mismanaged health care system, she knew the problems began the moment patients met their primary care physicians (a good place to start).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728370026
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	11/24/2020
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

I AM DR. SUSAN WRIGHT, author, trainer, licensed therapist-healer. and social activist, that is, until the day I suddenly became a managed care patient, lost my identity, and became nothing more than a machine with faulty parts that needed fixing. This book might just as easily have been titled How I Saved My Life, or Sorry Folks, No More Family Doctor. Instead, it is a true story about what it is like to be a seriously ill patient in a business run by private insurance companies, focused on cost containment, where medical personnel are salaried employees paid a set fee per patient, all of whom are assigned to a common pool after their medical histories are taken by a group of priority care doctors, each of whom carries caseloads of as many as 2000 patients. It's no wonder we have been sidelined, and computerized. The fact is that our emotional and physical needs are two sides of the same human being. Treating one and not the other is bad medicine.