SmartMedicine : How to cut medical costs and cure cancer

by Kent Wallner

Patients and insurers-natural allies! The medical industry, if left to its own, will continue to escalate healthcare costs regardless of how marginal or non-existent the benefit. The best hope for patients and their insurers to purchase high quality medical care at a fair price is SmartMedicine-the substitution of efficient and rational high-quality care for the current use of unjustified, wasteful medical practices. This book is a primer on buying SmartMedicine, intended for patients and their insurers. Dr. Wallner uses prostate cancer to -how costs are inflated by not-so-Smart medical policies
-how patients and insurers can push for change

241 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2000