How We Do Harm A Doctor Breaks Ranks about Being Sick in America

Name: How We Do Harm A Doctor Breaks Ranks about Being Sick in America
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ISBN: 9781250015761

ISBN-10: 1250015766

ISBN-13: 9781250015761

Edition: 2012

Authors: Otis Webb Brawley, Paul Goldberg

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How We Do Harmexposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians’ provide, insurance companies that don’t demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm.Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of The American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy career.How We Do Harm pulls back the curtainon how medicine is really practiced in America. Brawley tells of doctors who select treatment based…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Three from the Gradys



Chief Complaint



Brawleyism



Cadillac Care



Skepticism



A Wallet Biopsy



Failure Is the System



Red Juice



Tumor Promotion



Defibrillation



Palpitation



Saving Mr. Huzjak



God Is Calling



More Is Better



Ole Boys' Club



Snuffy's War



How Much Protection?



The Guillain-Barrï¿½ Syndrome



Saving Representative Silvio Conte



The Quintessential American



Faith-Based Medicine



Evidence-Based Medicine



The Denominator



From the Health Fair



Behind the Blue Curtain



False Guidelines



Algorithms for Judgment



Saying "Enough!"



Project LEAD


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes