Failure to Treat

<p>Stories of healthcare disasters abound in America today. Who among us does not know of one? In this anthology of composited true stories a veteran clinician shares the details of practitioners and patients who were harmed-in some cases fatally-by a terribly broken healthcare system. Each of the twenty stories addresses a common problem: insurance denials physician burnout drug overpricing limited physician access fragmented care frivolous lawsuits medical deserts misleading medical advertising administrative harm and corporate takeovers. Dr. Kowey discusses these issues and more in layman's terms concluding each vignette with practical advice for patients and caregivers to help them avoid a catastrophe. His goal is to partner with practitioners and patients to promote real change before American medicine runs completely off the tracks.</p><p></p><p>This book should be required reading for all clinicians and patients who are serious about transforming American healthcare. <strong><em>-Joseph S. Alpert MD Editor-in-Chief of </em>The American Journal of Medicine</strong></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Dr. Kowey has done an outstanding job of explaining how profit has utterly corrupted the US healthcare system-driving caring capable physicians out of practice while lining the pockets of hospital administrators pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. Read and weep. <strong><em>-Barbara H. Roberts MD FACC author of</em> The Truth About Statins</strong></p><p></p><p>These clinical anecdotes are poignant precisely chosen and fluently written. <strong><em>-Robert Fenichel MD former Director Cardiorenal Division FDA</em></strong></p><p></p><p>An engrossing compendium of medical stories that expose serious flaws in our increasingly heartless healthcare system. This book is a call to action. Changes must occur so practitioners no longer face systemic hurdles that waste their time and block their ability to provide high quality care to their patients. <strong><em>-Andrea Leonard-Segal MD former Director Division of Nonprescription Drugs FDA</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dr. Kowey has illuminated brilliantly many of the pitfalls in U.S. healthcare today along with their causes using patient vignettes. Helpful guidance is offered to patients as they navigate our dysfunctional healthcare system until vast improvements in US healthcare delivery are in place. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>-Ralph Brindis MD MPH MACC Past President American College of Cardiology</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>