MediScams
Subtitle: how to spot and avoid health care scams, medical frauds, and quackery from the local physician to the major health care providers and drug manufacturers
By: Chuck Whitlock ; foreword by Ben Chandler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Renaissance Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Quacks and quackery -- Popular works; Medical errors -- Popular works; Medicaid fraud -- Popular works; Fraud -- United States -- Popular Works; Quality of Health Care -- United States -- Popular Works; Quackery -- United States -- Popular Works
Genres: Popular works.; Popular Works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-303).
Table of contents: title: Every patient's nightmare : meet the man called "America's worst doctor"; title: John Ronald "Butcher" Brown; title: A brief history of MediScams : from snake oil to cancer quackery; title: Managed care; title: the biggest MediScam of all? : putting a price on human lives; title: Dangerous doctors : physicians are supposed to police each other; title: why don't they do a better job of it?; title: When "M.D." means "Money Doctor" : don't let your doctor rip you off; title: Lying with science : just because they tell you it's "scientifically proven" doesn't mean it is; title: Marketing MediScams : fraud as a multimedia event; title: What on earth? : turning the planet into scam cures; title: Plastic surgery; title: the MediScammers' newest target : the price of vanity can be crippling; title: or worse; title: Potent or placebo? : will the real cures please stand up?; title: Nursing homes; title: or warehouses for the elderly? : surely our parents deserve better than this; title: Shopping for supplements : buying a pig in a poke; title: Dental MediScams : taking a bite out of your wallet; title: Spotting the MediScams : the telltale tip-offs and profiles of medical quacks and their victims.