{"product_id":"the-familiar-physician-saving-your-doctor-in-the-era-of-obamacare-9781614488903","title":"The Familiar Physician: Saving Your Doctor In the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK IN HEALTH CARE TODAY\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eObamacare and the changes it brings could save our primary care doctors from extinction.  Or it could crush them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  Imagine health care without your \u003ci\u003eFamiliar Physician\u003c\/i\u003e. Every time you’re sick, you’re a stranger, enduring long waits for medical treatment from someone who may never have seen you before.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  This is what the future could look like … because there’s a tempest bearing down on primary care medicine.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  It’s powered by frustrated doctors retiring early with not enough physicians in the pipeline to replace them; more than 30 million newly insured patients; an aging population; increasing regulations; and it's converging with a sea change in health care reform.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  It’s the perfect storm that endangers primary care medicine and threatens to drive our trusted familiar physicians toward extinction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eJust as primary care is about to collapse, here comes IBM\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  The patch of fair weather within the coming storm is a care delivery model called the \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003emedical home\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, now quietly embedded in the heart of health care reform.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  This is the story of the dedicated people who helped build the \u003ci\u003emedical home\u003c\/i\u003e and implement it on a national level — the enduring vision of IBM’s Dr. Martin Sepúlveda and the powerful advocacy of his colleague IBM’s Dr. Paul Grundy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  And it’s told through the unique perspective of Dr. Peter Anderson, a pioneer in team care medicine and a champion of primary care whose efforts to create a better model of primary care delivery parallels and supports the development of the \u003ci\u003emedical home\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  Their efforts show us that passion and inspiration can remain at the heart of health care in the future. As we move toward that future learn what you can do to help assure that the \u003ci\u003eFamiliar Physician\u003c\/i\u003e, the basis for a strong physician-patient relationship, survives the coming storm.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eGive this book to your doctor.  And hurry.  You might just save his or her career.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Morgan James Publishing llc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359739838807,"sku":"9781614488903","price":27.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781614488903.jpg?v=1754125567","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-familiar-physician-saving-your-doctor-in-the-era-of-obamacare-9781614488903","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}