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Title: Racketeering in Medicine: The Suppression of Alternatives by James P. Carter ISBN: 1-878901-32-X Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: TELLS IT LIKE IT IS
Comment: I could have wished for better, more focused writing, as this book wanders around a lot -- but Dr. Carter provides plenty of examples of useful therapies that we don't get to try because Big Pharma can't profit from them. He shows how our "free enterprise" medicine is driven by profit and how large special-interest organizations (drug companies, insurance companies, government agencies, big bucks charities and especially, the AMA) determine what kind of treatments are considered "legitimate."
He shows how the government's requirements for testing new (and old, but never "scientifically" tested)) treatments, along with the almost fanatic belief in double-blind trials keeps good therapies from public use. Many other countries sanction these therapies, but in the US, allopathic medicine - led by the AMA -has a virtual monopoly on providing health care.
Since Dr. Carter wrote this book, the situation has improved a bit for alternative treatments, but overall, health care in the US is stagnant and disastrously expensive. If we had a system where the incentives were for delivery of good, cost-effective care for everyone, we would get fewer bypass operations, take fewer pills, and get fewer high-tech tests. But we'd be much better off as a society than we are with our bloated, overpriced profit-driven health care environment that mainly benefits big drug and insurance companies and highly-paid providers and executives.
The most shocking revelation in the book is how local medical societies team up with government to persecute providers who use unorthodox treatments. The medical profession claims it uses hearings to weed out bad doctors, but it seems these local medical societies mostly go after doctors who might have a treatment (like EDTA chelation) that doesn't cost enough. AMA doctors, hospitals, and even insurance companies would rather do a $30,000 operation than let someone suffering from clogged arteries have a $3000 treatment.
We Americans pay obscene (and unsustainable) amounts of money for health insurance only to be denied payment for treatments we may choose for ourselves. These denials of payment and persecutions of pratitioners are the actions of a monopoly protecting its own financial interest.
When will the American people demand a change? Wake up, America! You do not have the best medical care in the world, just the most expensive.
Rating: 5
Summary: A vociferous and articulate warning
Comment: Racketeering In Medicine: The Suppression Of Alternatives by physician and health issues consultant James P. Carter is a sharply worded expose of just how the financial bottom line is warping and skewing the manner in which medical treatments are researched, tested, and approved. A vociferous and articulate warning against the undue influence of pharmaceutical companies, and the suppression of the benefits of less costly alternative treatments, Racketeering In Medicine is a stimulating account of a very real problem present in American health care today and should be mandatory reading for health care activists, health care policy makers, and health care providers.
Rating: 1
Summary: Yes, science and reason is a conspriacy!
Comment: This book is an excellent example of the paranoia that grips people who don't understand the standards of science and reason. The author could well go on to write another book on the "conspiracy" of the criminal justice system that keeps us all poor by cracking down on bank robbers. After all, the banks have lots of money so why shouldn't we just go there and get some whenever we want? In like fashion, sCAMsters claim they have an "alternative" to scientific standards of medical care and complain when they are unmasked as charlatans and frauds.
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Title: The Cancer Industry: The Classic Expose on the Cancer Establishment by Ralph W. Moss ISBN: 1881025098 Publisher: Equinox Pr Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn ISBN: 0809241315 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Under the Influence of Modern Medicine by Terry A. Rondberg, Patrick, Jr. Gentempo ISBN: 0964716836 Publisher: Chiropractic Journal Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Cancer Conspiracy: Betrayal, Collusion and the Suppression of Alternative Cancer Treatments by Barry Lynes ISBN: 1885273126 Publisher: Elsmere Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Questioning Chemotherapy: A Critique of the Use of Toxic Drugs in the Treatment of Cancer by Ralph W. Moss ISBN: 188102525X Publisher: Equinox Pr Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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