Sense of Direction It Needs to be Restored: Part I Healthcare

Our health care system is broken and messy. It is serving neither the patient nor the doctor well. It behooves us, the physicians, to take the lead and diligently try to fix it. -from SENSE OF DIRECTION The "invisible hand" will start healing and Adam Smith's "what is good for me" will still be vehemently pursued but not at the expense of others. With a restored sense of direction, it will be easy to not only fix the health care mess but tackle other problems also. -from SENSE OF DIRECTION Of many recent books on health care, this one presents what can be truly regarded as thinking "outside-the-box" An attempt is made to find a link between the forces responsible for the ills of our health care system and those causing ills of economy and politics. Understanding and treating this link would provide the best hope for a cure.

Dr. Gandhi lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, Bharati, and younger son, Ravi. He has been practicing thoracic surgery in community hospitals for the last thirty one years. His older son, Sanjay, is associate professor of cardiology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with his wife and children. Dr. Gandhi was born and raised in India. After graduating from SMS Medical College, Jaipur, he spent six years in residency training and postgraduate studies in India, followed by four years of training in England. He came to the U.S. in 1970 for a short visit of one to two years. This kept on extending - into a life time.