Book description
Healthcare in Australia is in crisis - what are the solutions? This
book is my attempt to find the truth about health care in Australia
today; what decisions were made in the 1970s and 1980s that have
resulted in the system in which I work; and who made those decisions'
After the success of Making The Cut, in which he described his work as a
surgeon, and The Patient, in which he wrote about the life of a man
terminally ill with cancer, Mohamed Khadra moves to their natural sequel
- the topical subject of the healthcare system in Australia. In this
book, Khadra explains how our hospitals came to be stifled by
bureaucracy; whether we can and should administer universally free
health care to our population; and how best we can do that in 2010. He
also peppers the book with compelling examples of real people he has
treated - patients whose health he should have been able to improve, but
who became stuck in a system that made their lives worse. Heath care is
an incredibly emotive topic, which everyone has an opinion on. Mohamed
Khadra is a professor of Surgery at the University of Sydney, Australia.
He has had a successful and varied career as a leader in education and
medicine, internationally and in Australia. He has a degree in Medicine,
a PhD and a fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He
also has a postgraduate degree in Computing and a Masters in Education.
His roles have included Inaugural Chair of Surgery at the Australian
National University, Pro-vice Chancellor for Health, Design and Science
at the University of Canberra, Professor of Surgery and Head of the
School of Rural Health for the University of New South Wales. He has won
several research prizes, including the Noel Newton Prize for surgical
research and the Alban Gee Prize in urology. Mohamed is co-founder of
the Institute of Technology Australia, an accredited higher-education
provider that contributes to social justice by delivering accessible and
affordable degrees to students in developing countries. He is the author
of Making The Cut: A Surgeon's Stories Of Life On The Edge; The Patient:
One Man's Journey Through the Australian Health-Care System; and
co-author with David Williamson of the play At What Cost?
