liberating caregivers and empowering consumers for successful health reform Bauer, Jeffrey C. creator author. text bibliography nyu 2020 Third edition. monographic eng 1 online resource (xii, 156 pages). This 25th Anniversary edition completely updates the powerful insights and policy recommendations of Not What the Doctor Ordered, first published in 1993 by renowned healthcare futurist and medical economist the author. It presents specific solutions to serious problems of cost, quality, access, and outcomes by allowing all Americans to purchase services directly from caregivers who provide an expanding array of medical services at least as well as physicians--at lower cost. Focusing on new realities of the 21st century, the authorshows not only why giving consumers the right to choose advanced practitioners is the top priority for improving our overpriced, underperforming medical care delivery system, but also how to make the necessary changes. As he clearly and concisely explains from medical and economic perspectives, the key is eliminating physicians' monopoly powers over advanced practice nurses, clinical pharmacists, physical therapists, clinical psychologists, and other advanced practice (AP) health professionals who now rival physicians in scientific knowledge and caregiving skills within well-defined scopes of practice regulated by state governments. 1. Introduction and Background: 25 Years Later. 2. Medical Monopoly: What the Doctor Ordered. 3. The Medical Marketplace: Learning Lessons of History. 4. Captain of The Ship: Legal Foundations of Independent Practice. 5. Advanced Practitioners: Health Professionals Whose Time Has Come. 6. Case Studies. Jeffrey C. Bauer. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Service Industries Medical care United States Medical economics United States Managed care plans (Medical care) United States RA395.A3 B295 2020eb 338.4/736210973 9781315168647 1315168642 9781351686563 1351686569 9781351686570 1351686577 9781351686587 1351686585 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315168647 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315168647 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf OCoLC-P 190711 20260210180747.0 9781315168647 eng