John Geyman is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. He has spent 25 years in academic family medicine. He is Past President of Physicians for National Health Program (PNHP), and author of: Breaking Point - How the Primary Care Crisis Endangers the Lives of Americans, Hijacked - The Road to Single Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Healthcare Reform, The Cancer Generation - Baby Boomers Facing a Perfect Storm, Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying, and How We Must Replace It. The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim its Moral Legacy?, Shredding the Social Contract: The Privatization of Medicare and Falling Through the Safety Net: Americans Without Health Insurance
Recent Books by John Geyman, M.D.
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Announcing the launch of John's new Publishing Company: Copernicus Healthcare

We are happy to announce the launch of Copernicus Healthcare, and our in-house publishing company. The mission of Copernicus's is to become a clearinghouse for information, resources and news on issues of progressive health care: Single Payer, healthcare reform, universal access to care, Medicare, and other topics in the medical and healthcare industries. Breaking Point, our first book produced entirely in-house, has been released and is available through Copernicus Healthcare, Amazon.com, Barnes & Nobel and your local book stores.


CHC Breaking NEWS - John has a new YouTube Channel with interviews and CHC releases. Please visit:
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Announcing the release of John's newest book:
Health Care Wars - How Market Ideology and Corporate Power Are Killing Americans

 “Dr. John Geyman’s Health Care Wars is a tour de force—replete with facts that are organized for reader understanding and civic arousal. Citing irrefutable evidence from unrebutted studies, in properly enraging detail about lost lives and plundered family budgets, Dr. Geyman lays down the steps needed to replace corporatized, wasteful, corrupt health sales with full Medicare for all, containing incentives for prevention, cost control and the rise of honest, competent health care as if people matter first.
......Health Care Wars is a remarkably comprehensive, contextual and action-driven book with some marvelously insightful cartoons which show that in humor there it truth.” 

-Ralph Nader, author of the recent Getting Steamed
to Overcome Corporatism Build It Together to Win

Health Care Wars
ISBN 978-0-9837734-8-1
228 Pages / $18.95
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Click Here to read: "Addressing the Primary Care Crisis"
source: Health Workforce Information Center - 2011

Provides a Q&A with Dr. John Geyman, author of "Breaking Point - How the Primary Care Crisis Endangers the Lives of Americans." Focuses on the shortage and maldistribution of primary care providers, attempts to address these issues through policy changes and education, and barriers to implementing changes. (read full article)


Click Here to read an extensive profile of John written by PNHP in 2007.
Abstract of an extensive profile written about Coperniocus's founder (John Geyman)
source: PNHP, 2007

Each generation has an obligation to remind succeeding ones about the people, ideas, and events that have gotten us to this point. This essay and an accompanying oral history trace the origins of family medicine through the life of someone who helped found it—John P. Geyman, M.D. He is one of the most published family physicians in the United States. In addition to being a rural family physician, he was one of the first residency directors in family medicine and the first editor of the discipline’s first academic journal. His career weaves four themes together in interesting and creative ways: commitment to the work of clinical practice, a sense of responsibility for strengthening clinical education, a belief that clinical care should be based on science and delivered within a rational system of health care, and a love of flying. His story also exemplifies the generation of general practitioners who started family medicine but who retained both a personal understanding of the complex nature of independent practice and a reliance on community... (click here for John's full profile)



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Announcing: a new book from Copernicus Healthcare

Breaking Point - How the Primary Care Crisis Endangers the Lives of Americans
Breaking Point - How the Primary Care Crisis Endangers the Lives of Americans

by John Geyman, M.D.

Published in 2011 by Copernicus Healthcare / 234 pages

ISBN paper: 978-0-9837734-0-5
ISBN ebook: 978-0-9837734-1-2

Paperback: $18.95
eBook: $9.99

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“As always, John Geyman’s feet-on-the-ground, eyes-on-the-horizon writing about health care in America brings lucidity to the topic... It is Geyman at his best.” —Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, The George Washington University

“In Breaking Point, John Geyman explains why it is crucial for us to rebuild our primary care infrastructure, and how we can do it.” —Don McCanne, M.D., Senior Health Policy Fellow, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)

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Hijacked
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) is being spun as the answer to our problems of health care access, costs and quality. But the dirty little secret is that the reform effort has been stolen by the very corporate interests that have perpetuated and profited from these problems for years. The result is a bailout of a failing insurance industry and a bonanza for Wall Street. Most Americans and Main Street lose once again. The need for real health care reform remains urgent. This well-documented book charts a path to that end.

(2010) 290 pages, $18.95

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Other Books by John Geyman, M.D.


The Cancer Generation
Baby Boomers, America’s largest demographic group ever, is reaching ages when cancer is most likely to strike, transforming them into The Cancer Generation - they face rapidly rising costs of cancer care that place necessary care beyond the reach of millions. The landscape of cancer care in this country is changing, and our market-based system is failing patients and their families. This book shows the way forward, outlining eight steps to lasting health care reform.

(2009) 304 pages, $18.95

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Do Not Resuscitate
Do Not Resuscitate traces the evolution and track record of the private health insurance industry in America over the last 80 years. This analysis reveals the extent to which the industry serves itself and investors before the needs of patients and their families.

(2008) 250 pages, $18.95

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The Corrosion of Medicine
“John Geyman shines a bright light on the challenges to professionalism in the 21st century. If our profession can respond to his call to action, both physicians and patients will be the better for it.” —Christine K. Cassel, M.D., President of the American Board of Internal Medicine

(2008) 345 pages, $24.95

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Shredding the Social Contract
“Dr. Geyman is a modern day Paul Revere. He warns America—with a stirring mixture of evidence and passion—of the wrecking ball the apostles of greed are taking to Medicare, a national treasure under attack.” —Robert Hayes President, Medicare Rights Center

(2006) 324 Pages, $16.95

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Falling Through the Safety Net
"For better and for worse, the safety net is what stands between millions of Americans and no health care at all. Dr. John Geyman's Falling Through the Safety Net provides a brilliant road map to this nation's patchwork of medical coverage for the uninsured. As a practitioner, teacher, and medical leader, Geyman has learned his way around the safety net first hand. His book reflects that knowledge as well as his resolve to move beyond the safety net and put a firm floor of medical care in its place. Falling Through the Safety Net is an intelligent instruction manual for dealing with our present dilemmas and a vital prescription pad for moving beyond them. Powerful reading for all." —Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, author, Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care.

(2005) 224 pages, $24.95

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