OLLI101598 - Rheum for Improvement [Online via Zoom]

Course Description

Rheum for Improvement

Instructor: Mark Lopatin

Day of Week: Thursday

Dates: Feb 6 – March 20 (no class March 6)

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Location: Online via Zoom

This course delves into the many ways in which health care is compromised as seen through the eyes of a practicing physician. The main theme is that health care should be a human interaction between a physician and a patient rather than a business transaction between a consumer and a provider. The course addresses the multiple forces e.g. insurance, government, pharmacy benefit managers etc. who act to compromise the patient- physician relationship. The course is updated each semester to reflect the changes that occur in the health care industry.

Maximum: 200

Minimum: 30 people needed for the class to run

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 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 is on the Board of Trustees for 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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