Less medicine, more health : 7 assumptions that drive too much medical care

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Label

Less medicine, more health : 7 assumptions that drive too much medical care

Title remainder

7 assumptions that drive too much medical care

Statement of responsibility

Dr. H. Gilbert Welch

Creator

• Welch, H. Gilbert

Subject

• Health risk assessment
• Medicare

Language

eng

Summary

The American public has been sold the idea that seeking medical care is one of the most important steps to maintain wellness. However, surprisingly, medical care is not in fact well correlated with good health. The major determinants of health are outside individual medical care. Dr. Gilbert Welch pushes against established wisdom, and suggests that medical care may be too aggressive. From his twenty-five years of medical practice and research, Welch explains that excessive medical care is often powered by economics and lawyers. American medical care would not exist in this state if the general public did not harbor powerful assumptions about the value of tests and treatments, a number of which are just plain wrong

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

362.1

Index

index present

LC call number

RA427.3

LC item number

.W45 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

WA 900.1

Target audience

adult