One man's view of ten different health care systems
Books - One Injury, 10 Countries - A Journey in Health Care - Review - NYTimes.com:
What is abundantly clear, even from the short summary in this review, is that the author's experience in every industrialized country he visited was better than in the U.S.
Mr. Reid, a veteran foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, knows from personal experience that there are indeed a dozen better alternatives. International postings from London to Japan familiarized him with many of the world’s health care systems. Then a chronic shoulder problem offered the opportunity for an unusually well-controlled experiment: Mr. Reid decided to present his stiff shoulder for treatment around the world.I am looking forward to reading this book. I was recently talking to some friends from Canada, and I began to realize just how fundamental were our differences in perspective. I believe that one person's experience with multiple systems can, anecdotally, be pretty powerful in helping to expose the differences, strengths and weaknesses of each.
One shoulder, 10 countries. Admittedly it’s a gimmick, but what saves the book from slumping into a sack of anecdotes like Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary “Sicko” is a steel backbone of health policy analysis that manages to trap immensely complicated concepts in crystalline prose.
What is abundantly clear, even from the short summary in this review, is that the author's experience in every industrialized country he visited was better than in the U.S.
This sounds like a worthwhile book. Thanks for the tip.
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