The American Health Care Mess: A Doctor's Perspective

Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, a cardiologist, is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. His two books about his medical education and career-Intern: A Doctor's Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician-provide trenchant insights into the inefficiencies and waste of our troubled, profit-driven health care system, and the negative impact of these flaws on patient care. He has written for The New York Times for many years and is now a regular columnist for the opinion section.