Too much medicine
Subtitle: standards for better and more affordable healthcare
By: Dennis Gottfried.
Publisher: Paragon House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781557788818
Subjects: Medical care, Cost of -- United States; Medical care -- United States -- Cost control; Health care reform -- United States; Health Services -- trends -- United States; Health Care Costs -- trends -- United States; Health Care Reform -- United States; Health Care Sector -- trends -- United States
Description: "Describes why the cost of healthcare is skyrocketing and what patients need to know to protect themselves from needless procedures. Offers examples and suggestions for a better healthcare system with dramatic cost reductions"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The golden age of medicine, tarnished : how health care has evolved; title: Disease fiefdoms : how the glut of specialists hurts our health; title: The little purple pill : how the pharmaceutical industry peddles drugs; title: Cultural snapshot : how consumer and advocacy groups influence medicine; title: The sword of Damocles : how the threat of malpractice suits injures medical care; title: In the beginning : how America has created a business of birth; title: Balloons, stents, and knives : the heart of the matter; title: Below the belt : prostate cancer screening; title: A new cottage industry : looking for colon cancer; title: The breast decision : mammogram, hope or reality?; title: When the bone breaks : the osteoporosis industry; title: At the end : the high cost of dying in America; title: Transforming our diseased health care system : proposals for cure.