Guarded Prognosis: A Doctor and his Patients Talk about Chronic Disease and How to Cope With It Using his patients’ personal stories to illustrate dramatically how medical care once worked and how it works today, a concerned and caring physician makes clear just why he fears the current system has a very poor prognosis…. Continue reading »
Guarded Prognosis: A Doctor and his Patients Talk about Chronic Disease and How to Cope With It With 35 years’ experience as a physician, Lockshin remembers the days before Medicare, Medicaid and HMOs. Working particularly with lupus patients, he has accrued vast knowledge of chronic illness, insurance and hospital administration. Here, in the voice… Continue reading »
Guarded Prognosis: A Doctor and his Patients Talk about Chronic Disease and How to Cope With It The subtitle tells much more about this book than the title. For doctors do not treat aggregates of patients, they treat individual humans. Lockshin argues that governments, insurance companies, hospitals, and HMOs should listen to individuals rather than… Continue reading »
Guarded Prognosis: A Doctor and his Patients Talk about Chronic Disease and How to Cope With It From Our Editors Like James Herriott, Oliver Sacks and Lewis Thomas, Michael Lockshin teaches us about illness and health by telling stories about medicine. His stories focus not on disease, but the risks of the health care system…. Continue reading »
