FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 The Medical Prognosis: Why More Is Not Necessarily Better; 2 Dissecting the Practice of Medicine; 3 Nothing Exceeds Like Excess; 4 Are You Past Your Expiration Date?; 5 Screening Out Common Sense; 6 News from the Front: The War on Prostate and Other Cancers; 7 Diabetes: Things You May Not Know; 8 Why Some Think Threading the Artery Is Easier Than Threading the Needle in Cardiovascular Disease; 9 Degenerative, Infectious, and Autoimmune Diseases; 10 Making the Best Medical Decisions for You; 11 How to Do More Good than Harm; INDEX.
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Is the treatment we're getting really what we need?
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Medical care-- United States-- Evaluation.
Medical economics.
Cost of Illness.
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures-- adverse effects.