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The treatment trap : how the overuse of medical care is wrecking your health and what you can do to prevent it / Rosemary Gibson, Janardan Prasad Singh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibson, Rosemary, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Medical care--Utilization--United States.
- Medical care.
- Surgery, Unnecessary--United States.
- Surgery, Unnecessary.
- Medical care--Utilization.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's knowledge gleaned from extended experience in the field of medical care and Janardan Singh's similar knowledge but from a financial perspective, the authors explore the most neglected issue in American medicine today: the overuse of medical care, including needless surgery and other invasive procedures, out-of-control x-ray imaging, profligate testing, and other wasteful practices that have becom
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; part i; Dare to Look; 1 Voices in the Wilderness; 2 A Doctor's Tale; 3 How Did We Come to This?; 4 The Human Face of "Too Much"; 5 Are You Being Nuked?; part ii; Uncertainty, Marketing, and Money; 6 Uncertainty; 7 Madison Avenue Marketing vs. Medicine: A Family's Story; 8 Marinated Minds; 9 The Chapter You Won't Want to Read; part iii; Learn and Live; 10 Bypassing the Bypass; 11 Do It with Me, Not to Me; part iv; Every Problem Has a Solution; 12 Cull the Overuse, Not the People; 13 The Other Inconvenient Truth; 14 A Ten-Step Recovery Plan
- 15 Twenty Smart Ways to Protect Yourself Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-41749-1
- 979-82-16-36325-5
- 1-282-92274-2
- 9786612922749
- 1-56663-914-X
- OCLC:
- 694362373
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