Broken Promises

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After Romanow, What's Next?
Will Canada's health system be there for you when you need it?
Canadians are tired of the same old promises and the same old arguments they have heard before. The secret to our health care dilemma lies not in noble phrases or charts and graphs; it lives deep within the fabric of our history. We can never unravel the mess without understanding how we got here in the first place.
Broken Promises exposes the inside story of Canada's most sensitive political commodity. Using actual stories of real patients, Dr. Vertesi explains how the system they have inherited encourages doctors, nurses, administrators and politicians to pursue their own interests and - always under the guise of reform - to keep things just as they are.
This is a book that will bring clarity to ordinary Canadians who want to understand how it all went wrong and why, in spite of all the rhetoric, their own needs remain at the bottom of the list. Seen in this new context, it becomes... Tovább

Fülszöveg

After Romanow, What's Next?
Will Canada's health system be there for you when you need it?
Canadians are tired of the same old promises and the same old arguments they have heard before. The secret to our health care dilemma lies not in noble phrases or charts and graphs; it lives deep within the fabric of our history. We can never unravel the mess without understanding how we got here in the first place.
Broken Promises exposes the inside story of Canada's most sensitive political commodity. Using actual stories of real patients, Dr. Vertesi explains how the system they have inherited encourages doctors, nurses, administrators and politicians to pursue their own interests and - always under the guise of reform - to keep things just as they are.
This is a book that will bring clarity to ordinary Canadians who want to understand how it all went wrong and why, in spite of all the rhetoric, their own needs remain at the bottom of the list. Seen in this new context, it becomes clear that we have been arguing about the wrong things and a suiprisingly simple solution becomes evident. Now all we have to do is get there.
"Les Vertesi's book is must reading for anyone following Canada's health care debate. He makes a strong case for many of the reforms, such as service based funding for hospitals, which were also advocated in the Senate Committee's report."
Senator Michael Kirby
"A provocative book that asks the questions no one else is asking. A 'don't miss' for anyone who wants a refreshingly DIFFERENT look at health care in this countiy."
Colin Hansen: Minister of Health Services, Province of British Columbia
"Finally, a book that tells it like it is: as long as there is no market in Canadian healthcare, consumers of hospital services will continue to have no voice. No amount of money can ever change that."
Lindsay Meredith: Professor of Marketing, Simon Fraser University
Dr. Les Vertesi is an emergency physician and hospital administrator with a track record for leadership and innovative change. Vissza