Dr michael a shadid (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Meador Publishing Company, Boston, MA. 1956. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP and SD). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and spine shoulders. No DJ. Maroon grained fabric over boards and spine with tilt lettering on the spine and front board. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 312 pp 8vo. This book is the autobiography of Dr. Shadid, a Syrian-American physician who founded the Community Hospital of Elk City, Oklahoma in 1929. This groundbreaking institution was the first consumer-owned, cooperative hospital in the United States.The book serves as both a personal memoir and a passionate manifesto for reforming the American healthcare system. He tells about his journey as an immigrant from Syria who worked his way through medical school. His early years or practicing medicine was in rural America where he was exposed to the devastating economic realities of healthcare. He witnessed low-income families going bankrupt from medical bills or avoiding necessary care entirely due to cost.Driven by the belief that doctors should be incentivized to keep people healthy rather than profit off their illnesses, Shadid proposed a cooperative business model. In his system, local families pooled their resources by buying shares to build a hospital. In exchange, they received affordable, prepaid medical and surgical care. This brought the wrath of the AMA and law suits which were successfully defended the courts. This was a historic defense of prepaid group practice, laying the early philosophical and structural groundwork for modern Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and consumer-advocated healthcare. A clean very presentable copy.…