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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable. The Price We Pay offers a roadmap for everyday Americans...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages : charts ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting....
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