Severed Trust

By: George Lundberg

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Paperback | 30 March 2007 | Edition Number 1

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In January 1999 George Lundberg, the highly respected editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, was fired by the AMA. The stated reason for his dismissal was his rushing into print a study of sex that seemed to support President Clinton's dubious definitions of infidelity. But as the media furor rose to fever pitch, it became clear that this "oral sex debacle" was not Lundberg's first brush with controversy. He had outraged the AMA by charging on "60 Minutes" that doctors were burying their mistakes by not performing autopsies, and he had taken strong stands on such hot-button topics as assisted suicide, gun control, alternative medicine, and abortion. In this no-holds-barred book, Lundberg, now editor in chief of the online medical journal Medscape, speaks out on the crisis in contemporary medicine. He charges that organized medicine has surrendered to an overbuilt and overused political-industrial complex that underfunds prevention, undermines scientific research, and overlooks patients' needs-with disastrous results for doctors and patients alike. High costs and managed care are the least of our problems, says Lundberg: the greatest threat is the pervasive erosion of professional standards. Lundberg's keen analysis of greedy doctors, profit-hungry drug companies, and a corrupted AMA that seeks only to protect vested interests is certain to provoke controversy and stimulate debate.

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General Health Systems & Services Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies Public Health & Preventive Medicine Miscellaneous Items Psychology

Prologue
Introduction: A Medical Memoir	p. 1
The Enemy Is Us: Why Medical Care Costs So Much and What We Can Do About It	p. 17
The Question of Queues: Why We Have to Ration Care	p. 49
The Coverage Circus: Why What You Need Is Not Always What You Get	p. 77
There Is No Alternative to Medicine: Why People Buy Care Wherever They Find It	p. 105
Mouse Calls for House Calls: The Benefits, Deficits, and Promotion of Internet Care	p. 127
A Terminal Profession: Why Medicine Is Under Attack	p. 155
Uninformed Consent: When Disclosure Is Incomplete, Misleading, or Nonexistent	p. 185
Disclosures on Death: Why Doctors Should Help Patients Die	p. 217
The Search for Quality: It All Begins on the Autopsy Table	p. 245
The Way to Reform: Thinking About a Better System	p. 271
Patient-Focused Control: Fixing Our Broken Health System	p. 295
Epilogue: International Health Care Reform	p. 329
Acknowledgments	p. 333
Index	p. 335
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