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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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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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.10973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Surgery, Unnecessary - United States |
| Medical care - Utilization - United States | |
| Health care reform - United States | |
| Altri autori: |
SinghJanardan Prasad <1960->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 imaging, profligate testing, and other wasteful practices that have becom |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The treatment trap |
| ISBN: | 979-82-16-41749-1 |
| 979-82-16-36325-5 | |
| 1-282-92274-2 | |
| 9786612922749 | |
| 1-56663-914-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910966185703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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