A nationally recognized expert offers a searing exposé of Big Pharma and the American healthcare system’s zeal for excessive medical testing.

More screening doesn’t lead to better health—but can turn healthy people into patients. 

Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine,...

As patients in his hospital are being wrongly declared dead by skilled doctors, Dr. Eric Najarian decides to investigate, certain that a mysterious group calling itself "Caduceus" is responsible.

A personal account of the author's rescue squad experiences.

Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding.

In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed, medical-expertise model of making decisions, presenting a practical approach augmented by formal exercises designed to give patients the tools and confidence...

"Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man....

Devastated by the death of her boyfriend after a routine surgery, fourth-year medical student Lynn Pierce investigates the accident and discovers a string of suspicious deaths at the hospital.

"Engaging images accompany information about medical robots. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"-- Provided by publisher.

"An award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms; she diagnoses and treats the disease itself....