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When will our economic structure fail to accommodate our expanding medical expenditures? These have risen to 240 billion dollars annually and approach 10% of the gross national product, making medicine the nation's largest industry. The most rational control is a reduction of demand. Approximately 50% of our hospital beds are occupied by patients who are practically ambulatory and could be treated as well or better at home, the physician's office or as out-patients, while avoiding the iatrogenic risks of hospitalization. Of the remaining 50%, half have self-inflicted, therefore preventable illness. Can the idea of individual responsibility supersede or supplement that of individual rights? Must these rights be guaranteed by government and delivered by public and private agencies? The tests involved in routine checkups and probing for causes which follows slightly abnormal findings are a major source of financial and emotional wastage, but these are only part of the perils to your purse in your medical bills. Unnecessary, erroneous, unproductive and hazardous surgery, which adds billions of dollars to our national expense are discussed in detail. In this book you will find many examples that are literally -- medical rip-offs.
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Medical Overkill : Diseases of Medical Progress
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George F. Stickley Co., Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., 1983
ISBN 10: 0893130656
ISBN 13: 9780893130657
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Medical Overkill Diseases of Medical Progress
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George F. Stickley Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1983
ISBN 10: 0893130656
ISBN 13: 9780893130657
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George F. Stickley Company, Philadelphia, 1983
ISBN 10: 0893130656
ISBN 13: 9780893130657
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Hardcover. Condition: As New condition. Dust Jacket Condition: As New dust jacket. First Edition. Philadelphia: George F. Stickley Company, 1983. As New condition in As New Dust Jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NOT price clipped ($14.50). Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Among 16 chapters are: Medical Diagnosis and the Risk of Iatrogenesis; Medical Rip-Offs; Radiation: The Unseen Peril; Fitness: Dangerous Diets and Exercise Evils; Cures Causing Cancer; Iatrogenesis in Obstetrics; Iatrogenic Infections; Hospitalitis; Reducing the Risk of Iatrogenesis; etc. Common abbreviations and acronyms. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black cloth, lettered in shiny silver on the spine. First Edition. Hardcover. As New condition/As New dust jacket. 8vo. viii, 310pp. Seller Inventory # 015334