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This book is a unique behind-the-scenes look at what is really happening in health care today as observed by a practicing physician. Read Elephants in the Exam Room to get the real answers to today’s most important health care questions:
1. Why doesn't our health care policy really address the rising cost of health care?
2. What drives the real cost of expensive health care in the United States?
3. What major factors that influence the cost of health care are purely behavioral?
4. What can we do right now to solve our health care cost "crisis"?
5. Does the "quality" movement really do anything to mitigate the high-and ever increasing-cost of health care?
6.Can a movement toward a single-payor, universal, or nationalized health care system support primary care medicine and effect insurance industry reform?
Interviews
Dr. Liebhard has discussed Elephants in the Exam Room at multiple book signings (including at the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians annual meeting) and various other appearances, including policy panels such as the Minnesota Physician Roundtable. He has also been interviewed in several media outlets, including TV (example: "Voice of Democracy"), radio (examples: Jason Lewis, KTLK-FM; Dave Thompson, KSTP-AM), periodicals (example: Sen. Dave Durenberger NIHP newsletter), and newspapers (see below).
Elephants in the Exam Room has been profiled in several news publications. Here are some excerpts:
Many agree that America's health-care system is in crisis but few put it as bluntly as Dr. Wayne Liebhard has in his new book "Elephants in the Exam Room: The Seven Things You Need to Know About Today's Health Care Crisis."
--This Week , 10/6/07 Jessica Harper
Liebhard's inspiration for writing the book came from the frustration that no one has put the information in one place, he said. "Elephants in the Exam Room' is about the things that people should be talking about with health care, but no one does or wants to," Liebhard said.
Liebhard said this book argues why consumers need to regain control of health care and why it needs to happen as soon as possible, as a result of all the changes in health care.
The United States has the best health care in the world, he said. The problem is how it's delivered and who the money is spent on.
"The thought du jour is that we are spending all this money because we have poor health care," Liebhard said. "That's wrong. We spend all this money because we live the world's most destructive lifestyles and then we feel like we can spend our way out of it."
--Prior Lake American Newspaper, 9/29/07 Shawn Hogendorf and Reprinted in the Shakopee Valley News 10/4/07
"Everyone wants a piece of the pie, and in this book, I tried to look at this issue from all sides fairly and to scrutinize all sides fairly," Liebhard said. "It's based on my experiences in all these years practicing."
--Belle Plaine Herald, 10/3/07 Kim Broback