Suzanne Gordon

Wounds of War (eBook, ePUB)

How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation's Veterans

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital system in the country-one that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the nation's media.

In Wounds of War, Suzanne Gordon draws on five years of observational research to describe how the VHA does a better job than private sector institutions offering primary and geriatric care, mental health and home care services, and support for patients nearing the end of life. In the unusual culture of solidarity between patients and providers that the VHA has fostered, Gordon finds a working model for higher-quality health care and a much-needed alternative to the practice of for-profit medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501730832
• Artikelnr.: 53628824

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Gordon has written, edited, or coauthored twenty books. Gordon has been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, American Prospect, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's Magazine.