Raymond Gibbons, MD (Mayo Clinic, Pres/American Heart Association), said COURAGE trial findings suggest that "hundreds of thousands of Americans with stable angina who received coronary stents did not need them."
...a doctor's main role would be to restore the physical, psychological and social capacity of the sick person to allow him or her to live life in their own self-determined manner. Medicine would not be about returning the body or mind to an idealized sta
...the dangers of expert opinion explain why doctors have spent most of human history killing their patients...in Bad Medicine, Wootton...creates a genuinely thrilling adventure out of the abysmal failings of doctors over the past 2,000 years. Wootton's
our privately managed yet mainly publicly funded system produces the worst of both worlds—high costs, rampant inefficiencies and intense competition among providers that doesn't benefit patients. She traces how today's market-driven medical system emerg