Healthy Skepticism Library item: 13552
Warning: This library includes all items relevant to health product marketing that we are aware of regardless of quality. Often we do not agree with all or part of the contents.
Publication type: book
von Hippel A
Better Health Care At Half The Cost
: Xlibris Corporation 2004
http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=24928
Abstract:
This completely referenced, indexed book includes important insights for physicians, patients and politicians. It covers health-related topics ranging from the economy, the medical-industrial complex, taxation and outsourced jobs, to inexpensive remedies for gout, coronary artery inflammation, and declining sexual potency. After explaining how such cheap effective treatments harm everyone but the patient, von Hippel discusses hundreds of ways to reduce health care costs and improve patient outcomes. He further empowers patients by reviewing what medical care can and cannot achieve, and why screening tests and biopsies so often give ambiguous results. His true medical tales will fascinate, educate amuse and apall.
About the Author
Arndt von Hippel graduated from MIT and Harvard Medical School, then trained for eight years before opening his private surgical practice in Anchorage. Dr. von Hippel started and ran Alaska’s highly successful heart surgery program.
