OLLI101544 - Rheum for Improvement- How our Health-Care System in Failing Patients (ONLINE VIA ZOOM)
Course Description
RHEUM FOR IMPROVEMENT - HOW OUR HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM IS FAILING PATIENTS
Instructor: Mark Lopatin
Day of Week: Wednesday
Dates: Jan 31 – Mar 13 (6 sessions)
No Class: Mar 6
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Online via Zoom
Health care should be a human interaction between a patient and physician. However, too often it has become a business transaction between a consumer and a provider. This course will address the multiple bureaucratic forces, financial, legal, political, etc. that damage the patient-physician relationship and compromise the health care that patients receive, as seen through the eyes of a recently retired rheumatologist who was in independent practice for 28 years. The course will also address advocacy and what patients can do to improve their health care experiences.
Maximum Online: 250
Instructor Bio:
Mark Lopatin is a recently retired rheumatologist and author of the book, Rheum for Improvement -The Evolution of a Health-Care Advocate which addresses how corporate medicine is removing the humanity from health care. He has served as chairman of the Montgomery County Medical Society, the Montgomery County Medical-Legal Committee and the Montgomery County Task Force on Mediation. He currently is on the Board of Trustees for both the Pennsylvania Medical Society and their Political Action Committee and is active in multiple grassroots advocacy groups. He has lectured and written numerous articles on multiple health-care issues. He views the patient-physician relationship as sacred and is outspoken against those who seek to destroy that relationship to control the health care dollar.
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