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Copernicus Healthcare focuses on healthcare reform, single payer financing, Medicare, and other topics that affect the health and well-being of Americans. Copernicus publishes books and eBooks within the health care genre, as well as offering blog postings, information resources and original content and articles by John Geyman, M.D.
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Click Here to read: "Addressing the Primary Care Crisis"
source: Health Workforce Information Center
synopsis: Provides a Q&A with Dr. John Geyman, author of "Health Care Wars - How Market Ideology and Corporate Power are Killing Americans." Focuses on the shortage and maldistribution of primary care providers, attempts to address these issues through policy changes and education, and barriers to implementing changes. (read full article)
Read an extensive profile on John Geyman, M.D. written by PNHP
Abstract of an extensive profile written about Coperniocus's founder (John Geyman) by John Frey, M.D.
Each generation has an obligation to remind succeeding ones about the people, ideas, and events that have gotten us to this point. This essay and an accompanying oral history trace the origins of family medicine through the life of someone who helped found it—John P. Geyman, M.D. He is one of the most published family physicians in the United States. In addition to being a rural family physician, he was one of the first residency directors in family medicine and the first editor of the discipline’s first academic journal. His career weaves four themes together in interesting and creative ways: commitment to the work of clinical practice, a sense of responsibility for strengthening clinical education, a belief that clinical care should be based on science and delivered within a rational system of health care, and a love of flying. His story also exemplifies the generation of general practitioners who started family medicine but who retained both a personal understanding of the complex nature of independent practice and a reliance on community... (click here for John's full profile)
Recent Books Available from Copernicus Healthcare
Health Care Wars - How Market Ideology and Corporate Power are Killing Americans / by John Geyman, M.D.
Published in 2012 by Copernicus Healthcare / 248 pages
ISBN paper: 978-0983773481
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While pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and medical product companies profit, taxpayers are getting squeezed at an accelerating rate. To make sense of the system and understand why the health care cost debate is only beginning you have to read the succinct words of one of America's wise men, John Geyman, MD. Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides and which party controls Washington, Dr. Geyman's words of wisdom will guide us for the foreseeable future. A must read for all interested in health care policy.
"Dr. John Geyman's Health Care Wars is a tour de force... — Ralph Nader, author of Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build it Together to Win
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Souls on a Walk / by John GeymanPublished in 2013 by Copernicus Healthcare / 210 pages
Available Soon!Paperback $11.95
eBook: $9.95PB: ISBN 978-0-9837734-5-0
eBook: ISBN 978-0-9837734-5-0“Brains don’t get Alzheimer’s disease; people get Alzheimer’s disease. John Geyman utilizes his observational skills honed over decades as a family physician to present a compelling account of his wife Gene and how the disease affected both of them. Love shines through from every page.” —Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and author of Stories of Sickness.
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The Cancer Generation: Baby Boomers Facing a Perfect Storm - Second Edition(2012) 304 pages, $18.95
Coming Soon!ISBN paper: 978-0-9837734-3-6
ISBN ebook: 978-0-9837734-2-9
Baby Boomers, America’s largest demographic group ever, is reaching ages when cancer is most likely to strike, transforming them into The Cancer Generation - They face rapidly rising costs of cancer care that place necessary care beyond the reach of millions. The landscape of cancer care in this country is changing, and our market-based system is failing patients and their families. This book shows the way forward, outlining eight steps to lasting health care reform.
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The Art of Medicine in Metaphors / by James Borton
Published in 2013 by Copernicus Healthcare
Paperback: $14.95ISBN: 978-0-9837734-9-8
Poetry and stories about illness address more than just the symptoms of disease. Narratives and poems are the pathways for people to make sense of and discover meaning in life’s difficult events. This anthology connects the world of medicine with patients’ experience. The lyrical power of patients’ voices and the metaphors they use offer insight, empathy, and compassion into the heart of the medical conversation.
“It is always a privilege to listen to the voices of ordinary people as they struggle with the extraordinary challenges inherent in serious illness, disability, loss, and death. In The Art of Medicine in Metaphors, these heartfelt stories pour forth, in poetry and in prose, and we are lifted up in reading them.” —Dr. Johanna Shapiro, Director, Program in Medical Humanities & Arts University of California, Irvine College of Medicine. Irvine, CA.
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The Golden Calf - by Howard Brody
Published in 2012 by Copernicus Healthcare / 240 pages
Available Soon!Paperback $14.95
eBook:Paper: ISBN 978-0-9837734-4-3
eBook: ISBN 978-0-9837734-5-0“This pioneering book by Dr. Brody, family physician, bioethicist, philosopher and humanist, tells us why and how health care reform has failed the public interest for at least 30 years. Here Brody describes economism—a belief system that puts total faith in an unregulated free market—and describes its historical roots in culture and religion. Despite warnings by some economists that markets fail to work in health care, Brody shows us how the gospel of economism stands in the way of urgently needed reform that will assure full access to affordable quality health care for all Americans.” - John Geyman, M.D.
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More Copernicus Books Coming Soon:
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The Power of Letting Go - Nicholas Corrin
Publication date: January, 2013
298 pages with illustrations
ISNB 978-0-9887996-0-8 Perfect Bound
ISBN 978-0-9887996-1-5 eBook"This remarkable book is both an inner journey and a manual for survival. In today's chaotic world, it is easy to succumb to fear, panic or be overwhelmed. Here, The Power of Letting Go offers us a powerful alternative: how to transform such paralyzing states into the strength and courage of Love. By Love, the author means not so much an emotion as a deep, primordial connection with each other and with all that exists. By tapping into Oneness, we regain inner poise, rediscover forgotten wisdom, and reignite our innate powers. This allows us to be more grounded, and to dwell in this challenging world in positive ways. Interweaving contemplation of the natural world with an historic probing of science and spirituality, the author explains how, whether it be Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism or other religion (and this includes the new "religion" of science), the source always lies in Nature. Human beings will only find a way out of our current crises through re-identifying with Nature.
Composed of short, flowing chapters and reinforced with meditative exercises, this book is a tool for regeneration of the human spirit. Letting go of what we no longer need allows the life force to flow back into us. When that happens, we are no longer helpless victims, but a true force to be reckoned with."
Hijacked by John Geyman, M.D.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) is being spun as the answer to our problems of health care access, costs and quality. But the dirty little secret is that the reform effort has been stolen by the very corporate interests that have perpetuated and profited from these problems for years. The result is a bailout of a failing insurance industry and a bonanza for Wall Street. Most Americans and Main Street lose once again. The need for real health care reform remains urgent. This well-documented book charts a path to that end.
(2010) 290 pages, $18.95
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Do Not Resuscitate by John Geyman, M.D.
Do Not Resuscitate traces the evolution and track record of the private health insurance industry in America over the last 80 years. This analysis reveals the extent to which the industry serves itself and investors before the needs of patients and their families.
(2008) 250 pages, $18.95
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Shredding the Social Contract by John Geyman, M.D.
“Dr. Geyman is a modern day Paul Revere. He warns America—with a stirring mixture of evidence and passion—of the wrecking ball the apostles of greed are taking to Medicare, a national treasure under attack.” —Robert Hayes President, Medicare Rights Center
(2006) 324 Pages, $16.95
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Earlier Books by John Geyman, M.D.
Falling Through the Safety Net by John Geyman, M.D.
"For better and for worse, the safety net is what stands between millions of Americans and no health care at all. Dr. John Geyman's Falling Through the Safety Net provides a brilliant road map to this nation's patchwork of medical coverage for the uninsured. As a practitioner, teacher, and medical leader, Geyman has learned his way around the safety net first hand. His book reflects that knowledge as well as his resolve to move beyond the safety net and put a firm floor of medical care in its place. Falling Through the Safety Net is an intelligent instruction manual for dealing with our present dilemmas and a vital prescription pad for moving beyond them. Powerful reading for all." —Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, author, Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care.
(2005) 224 pages, $24.95
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The Corrosion of Medicine by John Geyman, M.D.
“John Geyman shines a bright light on the challenges to professionalism in the 21st century. If our profession can respond to his call to action, both physicians and patients will be the better for it.” —Christine K. Cassel, M.D., President of the American Board of Internal Medicine
(2008) 345 pages, $24.95
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Breaking Point - How the Primary Care Crisis Endangers the Lives of Americans by John Geyman, M.D.
“As always, John Geyman’s feet-on-the-ground, eyes-on-the-horizon writing about health care in America brings lucidity to the topic... It is Geyman at his best.” —Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, The George Washington University
(2011) 234 pages, $18.95
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The Corporate Transformation of Health Care:
Can the Public Interest Still Be Served? by John Geyman, M.D.
The author explores how the corporate transformation of hospitals, HMOs, and the insurance and pharmaceutical industries has resulted in reduction in services, dangerous cost cutting, poor regulation, and corrupt research. He sheds light on the political lobbying and media manipulation that keeps the present system in place. Exposing the shortcomings of reform proposals that do little to alter the status quo, he makes a case for a workable single-payer system. This is an essential read for today's practitioners, policy makers, healthcare analysts and providers, and all those concerned with the precarious state of America's under- and uninsured.
(2004) 328 pages, Springer Publishing Company
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Health Care in America: Can Our Ailing System Be Healed?
by John Geyman, M.D.
Written by a first-and-foremost clinician * Unique perspective sheds light on the urgency of health care reform * Provides a snapshot of our changed and changing system.Topics include major trends affecting health care, private verses public sectors in public health, improving access to health care, the aging population and its affects on health care, and principles and pathways for health care reform.
(2002) 441 pages, Published by Butterworth-Heinemann
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