A Bitter Pill: How the Medical System is Failing the Elderly

I recently heard John Sloan, MD speak at the NAPGCM conference in Seattle.  I highly recommend his book "A Bitter Pill: How the Medical System is Failing the Elderly".

"The medical system is set up to help people, but it does the opposite for most of the people I look after,” writes Dr. John Sloan, a family physician who restricts his practice to housebound, mainly older frail persons."  Click here to read more at the nih.gov website.

"What’s worse than the failure of the health care system to adequately care for seniors?"  Click here to read the rest of the book description at Amazon.