David Shulkin

Gebundenes Buch

It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country

Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans

Beschreibung

The former VA secretary describes his fight to save health care from politics and money--and how it was ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials with influence in the Trump White House. "A painful-to-swallow story of a political environment gone toxic."--General(ret.) Stanley McChrystalMcChrystal

Autor

The Honorable David Shulkin, M.D. joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2015, first as Under Secretary for Health and then as the ninth Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was the only Obama holdover who served in the Cabinet within the Trump administration and the only one unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Prior to his government service, Shulkin worked in a number of health care administration roles, including as President and CEO of New York's Beth Israel Medical Center and President of Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey. He is the Distinguished Health Policy Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, practices internal medicine in New York City, and still advocates on behalf of veterans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PublicAffairs
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781541762657
• ISBN-10: 1541762657
• Artikelnr.: 55480343