Bottom Line Medicine: A Layman's Guide to Evidence-Based Medicine

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Algora Publishing, 2006 - 334 páginas
An expos(r) of the medical and pharmaceutical communities, Bottom Line confirms your fear that you may be receiving substandard medical care. A critical care nurse and former pharmaceutical research scientist, Stanzak has written a brutally honest book to
 

Contenido

Foreword
1
Chapter 1 The Best Medicine for Whom?
3
Chapter 2 A Pill for All Ills and An Ill for All Pills
35
Chapter 3 Profits without Honor
49
Chapter 4 Pill Pushing for NonDiseases
67
Chapter 5 Medical Malfeasance
93
Chapter 6 Creepy Crawlies Bad Bugs And Malicious Microbes
125
Chapter 7 Bedpan Blues
193
Table of Contents
345
Foreword
1
Chapter 1 The Best Medicine for Whom?
3
Chapter 2 A Pill for All Ills and An Ill for All Pills
35
Chapter 3 Profits without Honor
49
Chapter 4 Pill Pushing for NonDiseases
67
Chapter 5 Medical Malfeasance
93
Chapter 6 Creepy Crawlies Bad Bugs And Malicious Microbes
125

Chapter 8 Cover Your Assets
205
Chapter 9 Medicines Marginal Benefits
249
Chapter 10 Disease Prevention
277
Chapter 11 Stressed to Kill
295
Chapter 12 Broken Hearted
309
Chapter 13 Bad Medicine
319
Epilogue
327
Index
329
Bottom Line Medicine
337
Chapter 7 Bedpan Blues
193
Chapter 8 Cover Your Assets
205
Chapter 9 Medicines Marginal Benefits
249
Chapter 10 Disease Prevention
277
Chapter 11 Stressed to Kill
295
Chapter 12 Broken Hearted
309
Chapter 13 Bad Medicine
319
Epilogue
327
Index
329

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