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A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
St. Martin's Press
February 2012
On Sale: January 31, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 0312672977
EAN: 9780312672973
Kindle: B005LVL12O
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Non-Fiction
How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare
today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of
the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine
the care that physicians’ provide, insurance companies that
don’t demand the best (or even the least expensive) care,
and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs,
regardless of whether they improve health or do harm.
Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and
scientific officer of The American Cancer Society, an
oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy
career. How We Do Harm pulls back the curtain on how
medicine is really practiced in America. Brawley tells of
doctors who select treatment based on payment they will
receive, rather than on demonstrated scientific results;
hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that seek out
patients to treat even if they are not actually ill (but as
long as their insurance will pay); a public primed to
swallow the latest pill, no matter the cost; and rising
healthcare costs for unnecessary—and often
unproven—treatments that we all pay for. Brawley calls for
rational healthcare, healthcare drawn from results-based,
scientifically justifiable treatments, and not just the
peddling of hot new drugs. Brawley’s personal
history – from a childhood in the gang-ridden streets of
black Detroit, to the green hallways of Grady Memorial
Hospital, the largest public hospital in the U.S., to the
boardrooms of The American Cancer Society—results in a
passionate view of medicine and the politics of illness in
America - and a deep understanding of healthcare today.
How We Do Harm is his well-reasoned manifesto for
change.
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