The Long Fix, Vivian Lee
The Long Fix, Vivian Lee
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The Long Fix
Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone

Author: Vivian Lee

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Kalorama

Published: 07/21/2020


Synopsis

In The Long Fix, physician and health care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of the health care crisis. The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who's paying, it's what we are paying for. Insurers, employers, the government, and individuals pay for every procedure, prescription, and lab test, whether or not it makes us better—and that is both backward and dangerous.

Dr. Lee proposes turning the way we receive care completely inside out. When doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies are paid to keep people healthy, care improves and costs decrease. Lee shares inspiring examples of how this has been done, from physicians' practices that prioritize preventative care, to hospitals that adapt lessons from manufacturing plants to make them safer, to health care organizations that share online how much care costs and how well each physician is caring for patients.

Using clear and compelling language, Dr. Lee paints a picture that is both realistic and optimistic. It may not be a quick fix, but her concrete action plan for reform—for employers and other payers, patients, clinicians, and policy makers—can reinvent health care, and create a less costly, more efficient, and healthier system for all.

About Vivian Lee

Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA, has been a practicing physician, scientist, and health care administrator for more than two decades. President of Health Platforms at Verily (Alphabet's health company), she is also a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Formerly, she was dean of the University of Utah School of Medicine and CEO of University of Utah Health, a system recognized for its excellence and innovation in care. Educated at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and New York University, she divides her time between Boston, New York, and San Francisco with her husband and four daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Atsushi on August 23, 2020

While it's easy to complain about how broken the American health care system is, it feels almost impossible to fully grasp the scale of the problem. This book did an excellent job bringing insight to every single problem the system face, and more importantly how to fix it. The author's hopeful outlo......more

Goodreads review by Vignesh on July 02, 2020

If you are looking for an optimistic view on the push for value based healthcare this is a good read. Book is filled with great anecdotes, insightful stats, and actionable steps to improve US healthcare.......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on August 29, 2021

Quick read about the US health care system and recommendations to change it for the better.......more

Goodreads review by Cara on October 27, 2022

A fascinating lesson with lots of practical ideas and research base strategies for improving health care. And now if we only had the wheel to implement them.......more

Goodreads review by Julia on July 12, 2022

Insightful, compelling overview of the headaches and opportunities that characterize modern American healthcare. A bit heavy on the “my company is awesome,” and almost exclusively a modern viewpoint, but touches on all key topics (pharma, insurance, digital health, etc.) in a succinct yet helpful wa......more