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42 HEALTHCARE REFORM Dartmouth-Hitchcock CEO Dr. James Weinstein on What's Wrong With Healthcare and How to Fix It By Kelly Gooch J ames Weinstein, DO, president and CEO of Dartmouth-Hitch- cock health system in Lebanon, N.H., has released a new book that discusses healthcare challenges and how to overcome them, e Portsmouth Herald reports. e book, "Unraveled, Prescriptions to Repair a Broken Health Care System," was written by Dr. Weinstein and William B. Weeks, MD, PhD. e book outlines healthcare challenges through various vignettes, stories of real people dealing with their illnesses, the ways their treat- ment may have been flawed, and Dr. Weinstein's offerings of how it can be improved, according to the report. Dr. Weinstein said he has multiple views of healthcare, as a success- ful spine surgeon, as a person in charge of running a major medical center and as a father who lost a child to cancer. "Seeing this system through the eyes of a parent of a very vulnerable child opened my eyes to so much that I had never seen as a healthcare provider," Dr. Weinstein wrote in the book's introduction, according to the report. "As the treatments began, we realized how much health- care including healthcare decisions would be out of our control." Overall, e Portsmouth Herald reports, the book tries to look at the whole patient experience, from the initial appointment through the final billing process. Dr. Weinstein said the model of healthcare today is not sustainable, and he wants to help create a system that will be sustainable, accord- ing to the report. "We need to look at everything and create a 20- to 30-year plan," Dr. Weinstein said, according to the report. "e system is not going to change overnight but with incremental changes in how we do things, we will create a better healthcare system. If we try to change it all at once, we will fail." Specifically, he said, having the physician and the patient work togeth- er to keep patients in good health will reduce costs, according to the report. He also discusses unnecessary medical tests in the book. n Access point Kambin Triangel 1 5 Y e a r s 1 5 Y e a r s s i n c e 2 0 0 1 2 Types of Access – 1 Goal The 360° Decompression of the Spinal Canal joimax ® Inc. 14 Goodyear, Suite 145 Irvine, CA 92618-3759, USA E-Mail info@joimaxusa.com Net www.joimaxusa.com joimax ® GmbH Amalienbadstrasse 41, RaumFabrik 61 76227 Karlsruhe, Germany E-Mail info@joimax.com Net www.joimax.com © Copyright 2016 joimax ® Groupe L1/2 L2/3 L3/4 L4/5 L5/S1 Increase of foraminal opening Increase of laminar window