title: The health of healthcare, Part I: The right approach is medical.
abstract: Fantasize for a moment. Imagine that our healthcare system is a human being, a patient with a name, a family, and a mortgage who walks into your office looking acutely ill. How would you approach this patient? What would you do? Now consider what has actually been done to patient Healthcare by its treating "doctors." Is the patient better or worse as a result of their therapy? This series of articles will explore these issues, starting with the need to use a medical--rather than a political or financial--approach to treat patient Healthcare.
authors.affiliation: University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, USA. dwaldman@thesystemmd.com
authors.forename: Deane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Waldman
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States