Terminal decline : a surgeon's diagnosis of the Australian health-care system / Dr Mohamed Khadra
- Bib ID:
- 7287506
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Khadra, Mohamed, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Sydney : Random House Australia, 2010
- North Sydney, NSW : Random House Australia, 2010
- ©2010
- 1 online resource (288 pages).
- ISBN:
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- 1742741320 (EPUB : :)
- 9781742741321 (EPUB : :)
- 9781742741338 (kindle)
- Summary:
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Healthcare in Australia is in crisis - what are the solutions? This book is my attempt to find the truth about health care in Australia today; what decisions were made in the 1970s and 1980s that have resulted in the system in which I work; and who made those decisions' After the success of Making The Cut, in which he described his work as a surgeon, and The Patient, in which he wrote about the life of a man terminally ill with cancer, Mohamed Khadra moves to their natural sequel - the topical subject of the healthcare system in Australia. In this book, Khadra explains how our hospitals came to be stifled by bureaucracy; whether we can and should administer universally free health care to our population; and how best we can do that in 2010. He also peppers the book with compelling examples of real people he has treated - patients whose health he should have been able to improve, but who became stuck in a system that made their lives worse. Heath care is an incredibly emotive topic, which everyone has an opinion on.
- Notes:
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- "Bestselling author of Making the cut and The patient"--Cover.
- A William Heinemann book.
- First published by William Heinemann in 2010.
- Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult.
- Audience: Specialised.
- Description based on print version record
- Subject:
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- Health facilities -- Australia
- Medical care -- Australia
- Assurance-maladie
- Équipements sanitaires -- Australie
- Patients -- Satisfaction
- Prestation de soins
- Services de santé -- Administration
- Health facilities
- Medical care
- Medicine: general issues
- Social Science - Sociology - General
- Delivery of Health Care -- Australia
- Delivery of Health Care
- Health Services Administration -- Australia
- Health Services Administration
- National Health Programs -- Australia
- National Health Programs
- Patient Satisfaction -- Australia
- Patient Satisfaction
- Australia
- Australian
- Copyright Information:
- Copyright © Mohamed Khadra 2010
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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