Review of Surviving the Business of Healthcare
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Review of Surviving the Business of Healthcare
[Following is a volunteer review of "Surviving the Business of Healthcare" by Barbara Galutia Regis PA-C.]
None of the healthcare books I have read can hold a candle to one written by a professional with decades of experience. Barbara Galutia Regis shares her knowledge in her book, Surviving the Business of Healthcare, detailing healthcare as a necessity as well as a career.
She tells her story from the perspectives of a healthcare provider's child, a healthcare provider, and a patient. Medicine is often assumed to be one of the most complicated subjects. Barbara disapproves this stereotype in this book. Although it features complex concepts in the massive field of medicine, she breaks them down and explains the details in the simplest terms for everyone to be able to understand.
She sheds light on many important aspects that are usually taken with a grain of salt, for instance, health insurance, finding the best primary care provider, what to discuss with healthcare providers, and the consequences of ignoring symptoms.
I love many things about this book and one of them is the fact that Barbara specifically mentions what she learned from her experience—and what she would like her readers to know—at every step. She also notes down various recommendations to her readers. She gives her honest opinion of every aspect and, as a result, enables us to view healthcare through her eyes. She respects her patients' wishes, as proven in the book, and encourages them and their families to freely share their opinions with healthcare providers.
Besides, she does not delve too deeply into specifics and this makes it easy for anyone to be able to enjoy the book, whether or not they know a thing about medicine. In addition, she gives glimpses of her life as a child, which is a breath of fresh air and helps us understand her better. For credibility, she gives a hint of some of the disappointing healthcare providers she encountered, while leaving out the explicit details. This way, she ensures her story is relatable without revealing anyone's private information.
The only thing I dislike is the disorderly arrangement of scenes. There is no clear sequence of events, especially when she narrates her past.
The book is well edited and I only noticed one grammatical error.
Aside from this tiny hiccup, Surviving the Business of Healthcare is an amazing book. I loved it for the most part, so I rate it 4 out of 4.
I would recommend it to everyone who would like to know more about medicine from various perspectives. Since it contains topics that may be traumatising to younger audiences, I would recommend it to readers above the age of 12.
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Surviving the Business of Healthcare
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None of the healthcare books I have read can hold a candle to one written by a professional with decades of experience. Barbara Galutia Regis shares her knowledge in her book, Surviving the Business of Healthcare, detailing healthcare as a necessity as well as a career.
She tells her story from the perspectives of a healthcare provider's child, a healthcare provider, and a patient. Medicine is often assumed to be one of the most complicated subjects. Barbara disapproves this stereotype in this book. Although it features complex concepts in the massive field of medicine, she breaks them down and explains the details in the simplest terms for everyone to be able to understand.
She sheds light on many important aspects that are usually taken with a grain of salt, for instance, health insurance, finding the best primary care provider, what to discuss with healthcare providers, and the consequences of ignoring symptoms.
I love many things about this book and one of them is the fact that Barbara specifically mentions what she learned from her experience—and what she would like her readers to know—at every step. She also notes down various recommendations to her readers. She gives her honest opinion of every aspect and, as a result, enables us to view healthcare through her eyes. She respects her patients' wishes, as proven in the book, and encourages them and their families to freely share their opinions with healthcare providers.
Besides, she does not delve too deeply into specifics and this makes it easy for anyone to be able to enjoy the book, whether or not they know a thing about medicine. In addition, she gives glimpses of her life as a child, which is a breath of fresh air and helps us understand her better. For credibility, she gives a hint of some of the disappointing healthcare providers she encountered, while leaving out the explicit details. This way, she ensures her story is relatable without revealing anyone's private information.
The only thing I dislike is the disorderly arrangement of scenes. There is no clear sequence of events, especially when she narrates her past.
The book is well edited and I only noticed one grammatical error.
Aside from this tiny hiccup, Surviving the Business of Healthcare is an amazing book. I loved it for the most part, so I rate it 4 out of 4.
I would recommend it to everyone who would like to know more about medicine from various perspectives. Since it contains topics that may be traumatising to younger audiences, I would recommend it to readers above the age of 12.
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Surviving the Business of Healthcare
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