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What Your Doctor Won't (or Can't) Tell You
The Failures of American Medicine -- and How to Avoid Becoming a Statistic
by Evan Levine
List Price: 14.00


Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Berkley Trade (January 04 2005)
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Chapter 1: How to Choose Your Doctor
How do you choose your doctor? It's not a very easy question to answer. However, I can tell you how not to choose your physician and, if nothing else, give you a tried-and-true set of guidelines as you make one of the most important decisions of your life



Book Description

Dr. Evan S. Levine considers it his ethical responsibility to say what other doctors won't-that the health care industry has put profits ahead of healing patients. A practicing internist and cardiologist, he shows how to get the best medical care-and avoid the scams used to bilk patients and boost profits. Among the topics and vital tips he covers:

  • How to choose a good doctor, specialist, and hospital

  • The life-saving value of second opinions

  • Tricks, of the trade that increase the medical industry's profits at patients' expense

  • How drug companies pressure physicians into prescribing expensive, brand-name drugs rather than cheaper-and sometimes better-generic substitutes

  • Doctors who make money from procedures they're not qualified to perform

  • Why health care has deteriorated in America-and what can be done about it

About the Author

Evan Levine, M.D.Evan Levine, M.D.

Evan Scott Levine, M.D., has been a practicing cardiologist and internist in New York for twelve years, with offices in the Bronx and in Yonkers, New York. He is affiliated with Montefiore Medical Center, where he is a clinical assistant professor in medicine..

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