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Index
Introduction
One: Too Much Medicine
Two: The Most Dangerous Place
Three: Your Local Hospital
Four: Broken Hearts
Five: The Desperate Cure
Six: The Limits of Seeing
Seven: The Persuaders
Eight: Money, Drugs, and Lies
Nine: The Doctor Isn’t In
Ten: Less Is More
Afterword: Sharing Decisions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Why can’t the United States
Deamonte Driver
Instead, we’ve decided to put up
I look at the U.S. health care system
Some policy analysts
In surveys conducted
One
The heroic surgery
Newsmagazines ran weekly reports
And yet, patients still died
The most pressing reason
My own experience
The AMA was in effect a labor union
But the AMA’s efforts
In 1967, Jack Wennberg left
Other physicians did not share
While Wennberg continued gathering
In passing the legislation
Before Medicare
inflationary spiral
The government’s payment
Primary care doctors did not play
A cardiac surgeon
Between 1950 and 1978
What they found was
Not all parts
The differences in cost
In 2000
Beyond the excess deaths
If you move from Tampa
Two
On a chilly Tuesday
Although nobody likes to think
In 2003, the Annals of Internal Medicine
But it was the outcomes
A medical student
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