Pharmaphobia : how the conflict of interest myth undermines American medical innovation /

While plenty can be said about the dysfunction of our health care system, rarely do business and private players in health care innovation get a good rap. This book takes on skeptics of the partnership between the medical community, political groups, and private businesses, by illustrating how such...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stossel, Thomas P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Temas:
Social medicine > United States.
Medical care > United States.
Inventions > United States.
Conflict of interests > United States.
Product safety > United States.
Medical care, Cost of > United States.
Medical care.
Medical care, Cost of.
Delivery of Health Care
Inventions
Conflict of Interest
Consumer Product Safety
Health Care Costs
Marketing of Health Services
Patient Care
Inventions > États-Unis.
Conflits d'intérêts > États-Unis.
Produits commerciaux > Sécurité > États-Unis.
Soins médicaux > Coût > États-Unis.
Prestation de soins.
Soins médicaux > Coût.
Soins médicaux.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Conflict of interests
Medical care
Medical care, Cost of
Product safety
Social medicine
United States
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The stakes
  • A practitioner's history of medical innovation
  • Enter the conflict-of-interest mania
  • The mania mongers
  • Abusing evidence
  • Bad policy process
  • Flawed and damaging policies
  • Misunderstanding innovation
  • Economic illiteracy
  • Misplaced criticism of incremental innovation
  • Rushing to judgment with product safety alarms
  • Demonizing marketing is false advertising
  • The 'gift' smoke screen
  • The lawyers' ball
  • The price we pay
  • What is to be done?

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