Life in The Deadly World of Medicine

ISBN-13: 9781439209554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 240 str.

Joseph T. McFadden

Opis

To empower the patient and counter the fatal flaws of the gigantic medical system of the USA, the author's first nonfiction work brings to the reader an inside picture of its failures and successes. Can the per year preventable death rate of 100, 000 to 300.000, and perhaps even higher, be correct? Maybe not, but regardless of the degree of accuracy the numbers do reveal the existence of an out of hand problem in need of control. The medical personnel, the drug industry, the hospital industry, and the insurance companies have not been able to remedy the faults. On the contrary, each of these fields may perform to perfection and still leave a void where no one is in charge of the patient. Only the patients and their families or guardians, using the wealth of information available to everyone here in the early twenty first century, can put an end to this deadly situation...