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Author(s): Alan P. Zelicoff, Michael Bellomo
ISBN(s): 9780814400272, 0814400272
Edition: Kindle
File Details: PDF, 1.59 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0814400272 
ISBN 13: 9780814400272
Author: Alan Zelicoff, Michael Bellomo

Patients today expect their every last ache and pain to be immediately cataloged and cured. They want the pill they just saw advertised, or the latest, greatest procedure. Many doctors, reluctant to tell patients that waiting or doing nothing is often better, are all too willing to accommodate. As a result, we are becoming a nation of over-diagnosed and over-treated people. But how can we know how much medicine is good medicine? And how do we know which treatments might actually work?

In More Harm Than Good, Michael Bellomo and Dr. Alan Zelicoff offer a compelling look at medical care today and explore how common conditions like prostate cancer, heart disease, and diabetes are being over-treated, wasting billions of healthcare dollars and producing less than ideal, if not detrimental results. The authors arm readers with the facts and questions they need to better discuss options with their doctors, and examine the way doctors select treatments in the first place.

Based on solid scientific and medical research as well as interviews with surgeons, internists, and general practitioners, More Harm Than Good will empower readers to make better health decisions. Revealing and impeccably researched, this is a revolutionary book that will change how we look at being sick.

More Harm Than Good What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Common Treatments and Procedures 1st Table of contents:

1 – The Medical Prognosis: Why More Is Not Necessarily Better

  • Taking the Data to Heart

  • The Modern Doctor’s Dilemma

  • A Deadly Intersection: Soft Medicine and Hard Technology

  • Understanding the Odds Can Even Them

  • The Evolution of Medical Knowledge

  • The Difference Between Trends and Individuals

2 – Dissecting the Practice of Medicine

  • The No‑Sum Game

  • The Value You’re Getting

  • Painting by Numbers

  • Flipping a Coin on a Heart Attack

  • A Stroke in the Eye

  • Under Pressure

  • Beyond Medicare

  • Is It as Bad Among Younger Populations?

3 – Nothing Exceeds Like Excess

  • More Room at the Inn Means More Treatment

  • The Dollar Cost of Variability in the Latter Years of Life

  • Many Captains, One Ship

  • Following the Money

  • What Is to Be Done?

  • …And the Patient’s Preferences

  • …And the Doctor’s Preferences

4 – Are You Past Your Expiration Date?

  • The Price of Living Past Your Expiration Date

  • The Body’s Expiration Date

  • Deadly Turnover

5 – Screening Out Common Sense

  • How Doctors Make Decisions During Checkups

  • What “Sensitive” and “Specific” Mean

  • The Gold Standard in Strep

  • Good Test, Bad Test: Same Test

  • The Popularity of Screening—Uncle Ivan and the CT Scan

  • Terrorized by Technology

  • Screening Gone Awry

  • Pitfalls and Promises in Cancer Screening Tests

  • Length- and Lead‑Time Bias

  • Testing for Prostate Cancer

  • What Makes Sense?

6 – The War on Prostate and Other Cancers

  • How Cancers Cause Problems

  • A Closer Look at Cancer: Incidence and Impact

  • The Rise in Prostate Cancer

  • What About Other Cancers’ Incidence Rates and Prognoses?

  • Hopeful News from the Front

7 – Diabetes: Things You May Not Know

  • What Is Diabetes?

  • The Use and Abuse of Glucose

  • Two Types of Diabetes

  • Glucose: The Small Molecule That’s a Big Deal

  • Should High Glucose Levels Be Fixed?

  • What Makes Sense for Type II Diabetics?

8 – Why Some Think Threading the Artery Is Easier Than Threading the Needle in Cardiovascular Disease

  • Putting a Price on Quality of Life

  • What Interventions Are Available to Prevent CVD?

9 – Degenerative, Infectious, and Autoimmune Diseases

  • First Line of Defense

  • Recent Breakthroughs in Understanding the Immune System

  • Autoimmune Diseases

  • Do We Really Need This?

  • Making a Pain in the Neck Even Worse

  • Infection

  • Degenerative Diseases

10 – Making the Best Medical Decisions for You

  • The “All You Should Eat” Special

  • Oils from the Sea and Tree

  • All That Is Sweet Isn’t Good

  • A Hard Look at Supplements

  • An Aspirin a Day…

  • The Wages of Sweat

  • Additional Benefits of Exercise

  • Why Weight Loss Takes So Long

  • Watch Your Mouth, Young Man (and Woman)

  • Examining the Physical Exam

  • A Pocket Summary

11 – How to Do More Good than Harm

  • Turning Things Around: The Payers and Players

  • Revamping Medical Education

  • Evidence-Based Medical Care

  • The Need for Universal Coverage

  • Electronic Medical Records and the Internet

  • Bringing It All Together: A Comprehensive Unified System of Payment (“CUSP”)

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