Hope Or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False PromisesAMACOM, American Management Association, 2005 - 335 páginas Annotation Medical science has always promised -- and often delivered -- a longer, better life. But as the pace of science accelerates, do our expectations become unreasonable, fueled by an industry bent on profits and a media desperate for big news?Hope or Hype is a taboo-shattering look at what drives the American obsession with medical "miracles," exposing the equipment manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies; doctors and hospitals too quick to order surgery; the politicians; the press; and our own "technoconsumption" mindset. The authors spread blame for the parade of so-called miracle cures that too often are marginally effective at best -- and sometimes downright dangerous. They examine consumers? eager embrace of medical advances, and present riveting stories of the conscientious doctors and researchers who blew the whistle on ineffective treatments. Finally, they provide sane, practical recommendations for the adoption of new developments. The consequences of questionable practices include costly recalls, billions in wasted money, and the pain and suffering of innumerable patients and their families. In short, they must stop. |
Índice
Medical Innovations and American Culture | 13 |
Why More Isnt Always Better | 27 |
Why Newer Isnt Always Better | 41 |
Social Hazards | 53 |
Opinion Makers and Regulators | 63 |
What Will You Swallow? | 65 |
Making Friends Playing Monopoly and Dirty Tricks | 85 |
Stacking the Deck? | 103 |
Medical Devices That Disappoint | 185 |
Ineffective or Needlessly Extensive Surgery | 199 |
Weight Loss Technology | 217 |
For Doctors | 229 |
For Insurers and Researchers | 241 |
For All Decision Makers | 253 |
For Government | 261 |
For Consumers | 273 |
00 | 115 |
Doctors and Hospitals | 127 |
Mother Teresas Waiting Room | 141 |
Holes in the Safety | 153 |
Popular Treatments That Caused | 167 |
291 | |
327 | |
About the Authors 336 | |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Hope Or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and ..., Parte 529,Volume 2005 Richard A. Deyo,Donald L. Patrick Pré-visualização indisponível - 2005 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Accessed advertising advocacy groups agency alteplase American antibiotics approval argue artery arthritis artificial heart Available back pain benefit better bone marrow transplant breast cancer calcium-channel blockers catheters Center chemotherapy Claritin clinical trials complications conflicts of interest consumers direct-to-consumer disease diuretic doctors drug companies drug industry drug makers drugs and devices encainide Engl ephedra episiotomy evaluation evidence evidence-based medicine example expensive experts flecainide funding guidelines Health Affairs heart attacks high blood pressure hospital implantable improve increase JAMA less lung manufacturers medical advances medical devices medical technology Medicare ments million National Neurontin operation patients percent Pfizer pharmaceutical physicians placebo prescribing prescription drugs problems procedure promote prostate cancer Psaty randomized trials recent reported risk Schering-Plough scientific side effects sometimes story stroke surgeons surgery surgical tests therapy there's tion treat treatment valve Wall Street Journal women York