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Author Gibson, Rosemary, 1956-

Title 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
Published Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Contents 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Surgery, Unnecessary -- United States
Medical care -- Utilization -- United States
Health care reform -- United States
Health promotion.
Health care reform.
Unnecessary Procedures -- statistics & numerical data
Delivery of Health Care -- statistics & numerical data
Health Promotion
Health Care Reform
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Health promotion
Health care reform
Medical care -- Utilization
Surgery, Unnecessary
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Singh, Janardan Prasad, 1960-
ISBN 9781566639149
156663914X