Overdo$ed America: the broken promise of American medicine [1st Harper Perennial ed] 9780060568528, 0-06-056852-6, 9780060568535, 0060568534, 978-0-06-134476-3, 9780062281432

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Overdo$ed America: the broken promise of American medicine [1st Harper Perennial ed]
9780060568528, 0-06-056852-6, 9780060568535, 0060568534, 978-0-06-134476-3, 9780062281432

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Dr. John Abramson

Table of contents :
Content: A family doctor's journey of discovery --
Medicine in transition: caring for patients at the crossroads --
Spinning the evidence: even the most respected medical journals are not immune --
False and misleading: the misrepresentation of Celebrex and Vioxx --
The myth of excellence --
A case in point: the saga of hormone replacement therapy --
The commercialization of American medicine --
American medicine's perfect storm: a brief history --
The commercial takeover of medical knowledge --
The snake and the staff: duping the doctors --
A smoking gun: the 2001 cholesterol guidelines --
Direct-to-consumer: advertising, public relations, and the medical news --
Follow the money: supply-side medical care --
Taking back our health --
The knee in room 8: beyond the limits of biomedicine --
From osteoporosis to heart disease: what the research really shows about staying healthy --
Healing our ailing health care system, or how to save $500 billion a year while improving Americans' health.

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