Concierge Medicine: A New System to Get the Best Healthcare by Knope, Steven D.

Concierge Medicine: A New System to Get the Best Healthcare (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781442207080)

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Format: Paperback
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Concierge Medicine: A New System to Get the Best Healthcare by Knope, Steven D.

Concierge Medicine: A New System to Get the Best Healthcare

$36.95
Concierge Medicine: A New System to Get the Best Healthcare by Knope, Steven D.

Concierge Medicine: A New System to Get the Best Healthcare

$36.95
Format: Paperback
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At a time when many Americans may be seeking alternatives to current health care choices, Dr. Knope offers an option that allows patients to directly contract with healthcare providers for individualized care. Using first hand accounts and plenty of examples of how concierge medicine works, Knope offers a plan for patients looking to make a change to a medical system that is negotiated between doctor and patient, rather than through insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Concierge medicine as currently practiced offers patients more time with their doctors, a personal relationship with medical providers and their staff, and tailored lifestyle plans that help patients prevent illness and disease before it happens. While some argue that such a system favors those who can afford to pay for such specialized care, Knope shows how it can be made more affordable for more people and how those looking to make the change can find the care they need and want with doctors who are willing to work with them to fashion a healthier style of living even while addressing bigger health issues and concerns.

Author: Steven D. Knope
ISBN-10: 1442207086
ISBN-13: 9781442207080
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2010
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
By Steven D. Knope
By Steven D. Knope
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Steven D. Knope, M.D., is a board-certified internist and sports medicine expert and has served as Chief of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Director of the ICU in the Carondelet system in Tucson, Arizona. A pioneer in the field of concierge medicine, Dr. Knope opened one of the first concierge practices in America in December 2000 and has since received local and national media attention for his work as an uncompromising patient advocate and opponent of the HMO industry. In his fight against a local HMO, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and inventor of the cardiac defibrillator, Dr. Bernard Lown, praised Knope as "courageous" and "deeply principled." Knope has served as the official internist for the Colorado Rockies baseball team during their spring training in Tucson and has been a member of the editorial board of The American College of Sports Medicine's Health & Fitness Journal. He is a highly regarded national speaker on the subjects of obesity, fitness and exercise, and is the author of The Body/Mind Connection.

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