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Autore |
Gibson Rosemary <1956-> |
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Titolo |
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 |
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Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-92274-2 |
9786612922749 |
1-56663-914-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (231 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SinghJanardan Prasad <1960-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Surgery, Unnecessary - United States |
Medical care - Utilization - United States |
Health care reform - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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