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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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Announcing the release of John's newest book:
Health Care Wars - How Market Ideology and Corporate Power Are Killing Americans“Dr. John Geyman’s Health Care Wars is a tour de force—replete with facts that are organized for reader understanding and civic arousal. Citing irrefutable evidence from unrebutted studies, in properly enraging detail about lost lives and plundered family budgets, Dr. Geyman lays down the steps needed to replace corporatized, wasteful, corrupt health sales with full Medicare for all, containing incentives for prevention, cost control and the rise of honest, competent health care as if people matter first.
......Health Care Wars is a remarkably comprehensive, contextual and action-driven book with some marvelously insightful cartoons which show that in humor there it truth.”
-Ralph Nader, author of the recent Getting Steamed
to Overcome Corporatism Build It Together to Win
Health Care Wars
ISBN 978-0-9837734-8-1
228 Pages / $18.95
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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 "Breaking Point - How the Primary Care Crisis Endangers the Lives of 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)
Click Here to read an extensive profile of John written by PNHP in 2007.
Abstract of an extensive profile written about Coperniocus's founder (John Geyman) by PNHP in 2007
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)
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Announcing: New books available from Copernicus Healthcare
Breaking Point - How the Primary Care Crisis Endangers the Lives of Americans / by John Geyman, M.D.
Published in 2011 by Copernicus Healthcare / 234 pages
ISBN paper: 978-0-9837734-0-5 / ISBN ebook: 978-0-9837734-1-2
Paperback: $18.95 / eBook: $9.99Buy a paperback book from Amazon.com
Buy an eBook from Amazon.com“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
“In Breaking Point, John Geyman explains why it is crucial for us to rebuild our primary care infrastructure, and how we can do it.” —Don McCanne, M.D., Senior Health Policy Fellow, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
Breaking Point Punchline and Synopsis click here
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.
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.
New Copernicus Books Coming Soon:
Hijacked - Second Edition - Target Date: April 1, 2012
Revised and Updated (2012)
290 pages, $18.95Paperback: ISBN 978-0-9837734-6-7
eBook: ISBN 978-0-9837734-7-4Target Date: April 1, 2012
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.
Also Coming In April, 2012:
Health Care Wars:
How Market Ideology and Corporate Power Are Killing Americansby John Geyman, M.D.
Hijacked
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
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
“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
"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
“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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