(Pdf free) Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises
☆ Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick Ph.D. M.S.P.H. ☆
| #1176434 in Books | AMACOM | 2005-01-15 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.30 x6.28 x9.28l,1.41 | File Name: 0814408451 | 336 pages |
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Similar and as good as Nortin Hadler's excellent books|By Abacus|This book is as good as Nortin Hadler's The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System and Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman). They all cover the same subject of how ineffective are numerous invasive and expensive medical|From The New England Journal of Medicine|Armed with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Deyo and Patrick make a well-documented -- if depressing -- argument that doctors, scientists, and laypersons alike are far too easily seduced by industry hype
"Medical science has always promised - and often delivered - a longer, better life. But as the pace of science accelerates, do our expectations become unreasonable, fueled by an industry bent on profits and a media desperate for big news? "Hope or Hype" is a taboo-shattering look at what drives the American obsession with medical "miracles," exposing the equipment manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies; doctors and hospitals too quick to order surgery; the politicia...
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