Books by Copernicus Healthcare

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Breaking Point - How the Primary Care Crisis Endangers the Lives of Americans

by John Geyman, M.D.

Published in 2011 by Copernicus Healthcare

234 pages

ISBN paper: 978-0-9837734-0-5
ISBN ebook: 978-0-9837734-1-2

Paperback: $18.95
eBook: $9.95

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Punchline: "Having health care without primary care is like building a house without a general contractor."

Synopsis: Our market-based, profit-driven health care system in the United States has put necessary care increasingly beyond the reach of ordinary Americans. Primary health care, the fundamental foundation of all high-performing health care systems in the world, is a critical but ignored casualty of the current system. Unfortunately, primary care is often poorly understood, even within the health professions. This book describes what has become a crisis in primary care, defines its central role, analyzes the reasons for its decline, and assesses its impacts on patients and families. A constructive approach is presented to rebuild and transform U.S. primary care with the urgent goal to address the nation’s problems of access, cost, quality and equity of health care for all Americans.

Endorsements:

“As always, John Geyman’s feet-on-the-ground, eyes-on-the-horizon writing about health care in America brings lucidity to the topic... It is Geyman at his best.”

—Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy,
The George Washington University

“In Breaking Point, John Geyman explains why it is crucial for us to rebuild our primary care infrastructure, and how we can do it.”

—Don McCanne, M.D., Senior Health Policy Fellow,
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)