Too Much Medicine: A Doctor's Prescription for Better and More Affordable Healthcare

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"What we need to know about medical testing could fill a book. Thankfully, Dennis Gottfried wrote it. Dr. Gottfried's engaging and thoughtful look at the medical industry is must reading for anyone who goes to a doctor, or might conceivably need one someday." — Alan Colmes, Hannity and Colmes

Too Much Medicine describes how medical decisions are made and why concern for the patient's well-being may get overlooked by financial motives and ...

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Overview

"What we need to know about medical testing could fill a book. Thankfully, Dennis Gottfried wrote it. Dr. Gottfried's engaging and thoughtful look at the medical industry is must reading for anyone who goes to a doctor, or might conceivably need one someday." — Alan Colmes, Hannity and Colmes

Too Much Medicine describes how medical decisions are made and why concern for the patient's well-being may get overlooked by financial motives and defensive medicine.

Written by a busy physician in active practice, Too Much Medicine is foremost about providing people with the best healthcare. Gottfried understands the strengths and weaknesses of American medicine and explains in plain language the reasons for needless, excessive, and often harmful healthcare, and how to prevent it. In the process of explaining the failures of our medical system, Dr. Gottfried provides information that will enable readers to take control of their own medical destiny, as well to offer solutions to the question of what our government can do about Too Much Medicine, and the dramatic reduction in health care costs.

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Editorial Reviews

Fox News - Alan Colmes
“What we need to know about medical testing could fill a book. Thankfully, Dennis Gottfried wrote it. Dr. Gottfried’s engaging and thoughtful look at the medical industry is must reading for anyone who goes to a doctor, or might conceivably need one someday.”
Mayo Clinic - Eric G. Tangalos
“This work is thorough, referenced without bias, and contains good advice and a workable prescription for better health care. I trust Dr. Gottfried’s advice and highly recommend this book.”
University of Connecticut - Lynn Y. Kosowicz
“This book will educate and stimulate those who are interested in participating in the dialogue about what is right and what is wrong in American medicine today and the next steps we as a nation must take.”
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781557788818
  • Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
  • Publication date: 3/30/2009
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 280
  • Sales rank: 1,315,830
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Dennis Gottfried, MD, has been in private practice for over 25 years and he is also an associate professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut, USA. Medical School.

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Table of Contents

1. The Golden Age of Medicine, Tarnished: How Health Care Has Evolved
2. Disease Fiefdoms: Hot the Glut of Specialists Hurts Our Health
3 The Little Purple Pill: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Peddles Drugs
4. Cultural Snapshot: How Consumer and Advocacy Groups Influence Medicine
5. The Sword of Damocles: How the Threat of Malpractice Suits Injures Medical Care
6. In the Beginning: How America Created the Business of Birth
7. Balloons, Stents, and Knives: The Heart of the Matter
8. Below the Belt: Prostate Cancer Screening
9. A New Cottage Industry: Looking for Colon Cancer
10. The Breast Decision: Mammograms: Hope or Reality
11. When the Bone Breaks: The Osteoporosis Industry
12. At the End: The High Cost of Dying in America
13. Transforming our Diseased Health Care System: Proposals for Cure
Endnotes
Index
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