Tailoring Health Care For Older Patients
When you visit a doctor's office, hospital or nursing home, what determines the type of care you receive? That's the question Dr. Muriel Gillick, professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School, explores in Old and Sick in America: The Journey Through the Health Care System (University of North Carolina Press, $30).
All too often, Gillick argues, treatment decisions reflect the priorities of doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical Senior Editor Eleanor Laise, Gillick talks about how patients and their families can get better care.
