The slippery slope of healthcare : why bad things happen to healthy patients and how to avoid them / Steven Z. Kussin, MD.

Author: Kussin, Steven Z., 1949-
Published: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
Physical Description: xii, 319 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents

Your money or your life: profit, greed, and the healthcare colossus -- Science in healthcare: the beast wears white -- Doctors -- love them, hate them: you can't live without them (or can you?) -- YOU! -- Screening: don't say no; just say whoa! -- TV vs, MD -- Shared decision making

Summary

"Dr. Steven Kussin, physician and a pioneer in the Shared Decision movement, takes readers through the steps of how to avoid the many pitfalls of unnecessary and sometimes even dangerous medical care."--Publisher's description.
A slippery slope describes how events progress from an initially innocent step to a cascade of subsequent misfortunes that are increasingly inevitable, difficult to stop, and more harmful than the last. In the attempt to improve what is already just fine, patients can unknowingly find themselves on this slope. This book shows them how to avoid it.

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9781538121627 (hardcover)
153812162X (hardcover)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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