April 16, 2010

Medical Abuses (Book Excerpt)

"Well-intentioned but overzealous physicians and surgeons, profit-driven hospital administrators, aggressive pharmaceutical companies and a too-quick-to-believe public brought about, for the first time, the triad of unnecessary laboratory tests, ill-advised surgical operations, and uncontrollable health care costs."

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Ira Rutkow
Seeking the Cure: A History of Medicine in America
(Book Excerpt)
New York Post
April 11, 2010
Page 31

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