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The Story of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield: The Visionary Who Turned Sick Care into Health Care
The Story of Dr Sidney R Garfield The Visionary Who Turned Sick Care into Health Care Author:Tom Debley, Jon Stewart how one physician's revolutionary vision paved the way from a 12-bed hospital in the Mojave Desert at the height of the Great Depression to what is today the nation's largest, most successful nonprofit health care organizationKaiser Permanente. — Like the architect he always wanted to be, physician Sidney R. Garfield spent most of his life design... more »ing and building a model of a new kind of health care. Built on the foundations of group practice, prepayment, and prevention and health promotion, it was in many ways the opposite, mirror-image of the way health care was financed and delivered in the rest of America.
In partnership with Henry J. Kaiser, one of the great industrialists of the early 20th C, Garfield stood firm against waves of early opposition from mainstream medicine and went on to build one of the most acclaimed and successful health care organizations in America.
CONTENTS: The Desert Doctor * Out of the Immigrant Forge * The Great Depression & 'Social Medicine' * Revolution in the Economics of Medicine * A Fateful House Call * The Final Dress rehearsal * FDR to Garfield * Postwar Challenges * Attack from the Rear Guard * Prosperity in the Postwar Boom * Toward Tahoe * After Tahoe * The Best Is Yet to Come
Appendices: 1] Remarks to the AMA on Promoting Prepaid Group Practice 2] A Report on Permanente's First 10 Years 3] From and Address to the Permanente Monetary Mgmt Conference 4] From an Address to the Board of Directors of The Permanente Medical Group 5] The Delivery of Medical Care« less