Bless This Mess: A Picture Story of Healthcare in America [B0375]

2018 PB in excellent condition. Our neighbors on other planets look with puzzlement at the United States, located on the beautiful planet Earth. Despite amazing knowledge, discovery, and skill, healthcare delivery in this country is expensive, episodic, not customer-friendly, and much better for citizens with lots of money than those with less. Can this country find the resolve to embrace change, learn from other planets (or at least other countries and industries on this planet), and create an optimistic future for an ideal delivery system? In a picture story that embraces disruption and transformation, this journey through time and space offers a humorous exploration of the weaknesses of the American healthcare delivery system. Bless This Mess asks how we might re-imagine how we teach, how we care, and how we put an end to health disparities ... and get us closer to the holy grail of a believable understandable bill! The challenge is ours. Will we take it?

From Amazon reviews: "This book is a humorous and fantastic depiction of the current broken healthcare system and what can be done to change it. The power is in our hands! I truly believe every medical student in the country should read it."; "As a leader, Dr. Klasko demonstrates that exercising creativity is essential to the work of solving huge adaptive challenges in healthcare. In Bless This Mess, he uses science fiction and humor to illuminate salient tensions across our country's healthcare system. He also explores galaxies where things go WELL, offering possibilities for change and growth in our own systems... Both in it's conception as a children's book that "isn't for children," and in it's content, Dr. Klasko stridently pushes us all in the direction of creativity and play. I love this book."