Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients ─ Principles, Practice, and Populations

The leading reference and text on the increasingly relevant and important topic of caring for underserved patients and those with highly unique health requirements

 

The timely publication of Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice and Populations, Second Editionis designed to clarify current issues and instruct you in best practices and compliance with legislation, such as the Affordable Care Act, when caring for patients living with chronic diseases in poor and minority populations. How do these laws affect you, your practice, and patient care?

Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients is ideally suited for clinical and educational programs and policy-oriented institutions concerned with addressing health disparities and caring for the underserved and vulnerable patient. Comprehensive in scope and authored by many of the leading names in the field, the book takes complex concepts and issues and helps you understand them, resulting in a “roadmap” to guide real-world applications and compliance with the terms of the law. Each chapter integrates key concepts, core competencies, and common pitfalls and concludes with useful lists of web resources and stimulating discussion questions.

From the reviews of the First Edition:
"This book is an ambitious and important contribution to the care of our most wounded patients. For those of us who regularly care for vulnerable patients, it provides an excellent resource and supportive guide. However, it should also become part of the standard library for all medical students and practicing physicians. All physicians have much to learn from the practical, evidence-based approaches to the societal issues we all face in practice. Ultimately, this is a book that could help all clinicians take better care of all patients, especially those who may need extra help and support as they navigate our complex health care system." --New England Journal of Medicine

The Second Edition features:

• Fully revised to reflect passage and impact of the Affordable Care Act on care of underserved patients
• Expanded with major new chapters, from Health Quality to Rural Healthcare, and additional content relevant to nursing
• Focused on evidence-based practice with a patient-centered approach
• Full color format
• Boxed main points and Practical "Pearls,” such as how to write a disability letter
• PowerPoint slides and question sets, exercises, and cases to aid instruction
  

Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD (San Francisco, CA) holds the Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine and is Dean of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
Andrew Bindman, MD (San Francisco, CA) is Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at the University of California, San Francisco and is Director of the University of California Medicaid Research Institute and UCSF’s Primary Care Research Fellowship.
Alicia Fernandez, MD (San Francisco, CA) is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a primary care physician, teacher, and health services researcher at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH).
Kevin Grumbach, MD (San Francisco, CA) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the Co-Director of the UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care and Co-Director of the Community Engagement and Health Policy Program for the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
Dean Schillinger, MD (San Francisco, CA) is UCSF Professor of Medicine in Residence and a primary care physician at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). He serves as Chief of the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at SFGH and directs the Health Communications Program in the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations.
Teresa Villela, MD (San Francisco, CA) is Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Program Director, San Francisco General Hospital Family and Community Medicine Residency, the Vice Chair, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine, and the Vice Chief, San Francisco General Hospital Department of Family and Community Medicine.
Margaret Wheeler, MD (San Francisco, CA) is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She currently directs the third and fourth year medical student clerkships based at San Francisco General Hospital and co-directs Model SFGH, a program for students interested in the care of the underserved.