The treatment trap : how the overuse of medical care is wrecking your health and what you can do to prevent it Cover Image

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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.

Gibson, Rosemary, 1956- (Author). Singh, Janardan Prasad, 1960- (Added Author).

Summary:

Discusses the overuse of medical care, shares stories of well-insured people who received expensive procedures that made their conditions worse, and outlines a ten-step plan to improve patient outcomes across the board.

Record details

ISBN: 9781566638425 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1566638429 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: 237 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Dare to look. Voices in the wilderness ; A doctor's tale ; How did we come to this? ; The human face of "too much" ; Are you being nuked? -- Uncertainty, marketing, and money. Uncertainty ; Madison Avenue marketing vs. medicine : a family's story ; Marinated minds ; The chapter you won't want to read -- Learn and live. Bypassing the bypass ; Do it with me, not to me -- Every problem has a solution. Cull the overuse, not the people ; The other inconvenient truth ; A ten-step recovery plan ; Twenty smart ways to protect yourself.