Runaway Medicine: What You Don't Know May Kill You

by Carolyn Barber, Mark Kreidler (Editor)

As a patient, what do you wish you could know before going under the knife or starting a new cancer treatment? This book will have you asking more questions and getting the answers you deserve. With 25 years of experience as an ER. physician, Carolyn Barber looks at the myriad of medical and surgical treatments that don't help patients much - but do make big money for hospitals, medical device manufacturers and Big Pharma. Barber's experience, though, goes deeper. A 30-year cancer survivor herself, she knows first-hand what happens when patients are poorly advised. Overaggressive, unnecessary treatment can lead to patient harm, re-operations, longer hospital stays, more tests and higher costs. And behind much of it is a campaign of sometimes scandalous marketing and sales tactics meant to benefit everyone involved except the patient. Well-written and insightful, Runaway Medicine is Barber at her best. Tackling a controversial subject in the power corridors of medicine, sharing her personal story and suggesting much-needed fixes to a broken system, she's right on time.

65 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 16, 2020

Reviews

[A Zau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eye opening book about critical medical issues.

This is an eye opening book about what is good medical practice. It covers the issue of over doctoring and prescribing and the forces that keeps it happening. Dr Barber uses both her personal experiences as a doctor and patient together with interesting references to published medical research to hit her points home. Highly recommended as everyone should know about how the system may not always be geared towards your best health interest

[Anthony Cabot, MD · Rating 4 out of 5]

Doctors Should Read This and Learn

After 40 years of orthopaedic surgery, I thought that I know all of scams of medicine. Dr. Barber has done a great job of explaining the pressures that seduce the medical community to our own peril. I will be sure that family and friends read this.