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Hope or hype : the obsession with medical advances and the high cost of false promises
- Title
- Hope or hype : the obsession with medical advances and the high cost of false promises / Richard A. Deyo, Donald L. Patrick.
- Author
- Deyo, Richard A.
- Publication
- New York : AMACOM, American Management Association, [2005], ©2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Patrick, Donald L.
- Description
- xvi, 335 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Hope or Hype is a look at what drives the American obsession with medical miracles. Dr. Richard Deyo and Dr. Donald Patrick - both experts on the ethical and policy issues facing the medical community and its constituents - spread the blame for the parade of false promises and compromises, indicting in equal measure the pharmaceutical and equipment companies; the doctors and hospitals too quick to order unnecessary and costly surgeries and medications; the politicians and media all too eager for a signature issue or a good story; and our own relentless demand to be "made healthy."" "Hope or Hype outlines the hazards - from unnecessary treatment to actual harm or even death - of embracing medical advances without serious consideration of efficacy, long-term benefit, side effects, cost, and other critical factors. The book also provides a frank and sometimes startling look at how companies get us to buy into the need for the most expensive treatments, and even manipulate clinical trials and data in order to present the "right" result."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Diffusion of Innovation
- Evaluation Studies as Topic
- Medical technology > United States > Evaluation
- Technology Assessment, Biomedical
- Medical care > United States > Evaluation
- Medical care > Technological innovations > United States > Evaluation
- Medical Laboratory Science > economics
- Medical innovations > Economic aspects > United States
- Therapeutics > economics
- United States
- Gezondheidszorg
- Filosofische aspecten
- Medical care, Cost of > United States
- Medical innovations > United States > Evaluation
- Medical care > Technological innovations > United States > Cost effectiveness
- Medical technology > United States > Cost effectiveness
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-326) and index.
- Contents
- Preface : disillusioned insiders -- Pt. I. Can there be too much of a good thing? : the hazards of uncritically embracing medical advances -- 1. What's the problem? -- 2. Medical innovations and American culture -- 3. Why more isn't always better -- 4. Why newer isn't always better -- 5. Social hazards -- Pt. II. How things really work : opinion makers and regulators of medical advances -- 6. What will you swallow? -- 7. Making friends, playing monopoly, and dirty tricks -- 8. Stacking the deck? -- 9. "Cancer cured - film at 11:00" -- 10. Doctors and hospitals -- 11. Advocacy groups -- 12. Holes in the safety net -- Pt. III. Useless, harmful, or marginal : popular treatments that caused unnecessary disability, dollar costs, or death -- 13. Ineffective, inferior, or needlessly costly new drugs -- 14. Medical devices that disappoint -- 15. Ineffective or needlessly extensive surgery -- 16. Weight loss technology -- Pt. IV. Crossing the threshold : improving the transition from "experimental" to "standard care" -- 17. For doctors -- 18. For insurers and researchers -- 19. For all decision makers -- 20. For government -- 21. For consumers.
- ISBN
- 0814408451
- LCCN
- 2004022295
- OCLC
- ocm56591961
- SCSB-5237139
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries