Rise & Fall of Healthcare in America

Physicians as of 2005, even those with great empathy for patients, are locked into a "system" from which there is no escape, but to quit. All are trapped and to a large degree tricked by inventions that together comprise a technological revolution that together with advertising hype have convinced a lay public money and machines, rather than fundamental thinking, will provide both the diagnostic tools and cures for many, if not all, major disabling illnesses. Many researchers, mostly utilizing mouse measurements, grope for answers, all involved in all out combat for monies if for no other immediate reason to support employment, "employment," granted quintessential at the very highest level of policy making. Futuristic proposals allowing for positive results become predictably unaffordable thus threaten to become useless. Drug company computers create similar medicines before physicians have had time to therapeutically try what came before. Emerging patents legal costs and advertising that progressively threatened consumers for 20 years now even threaten the nations major insurance carriers. The roots of how all this came about are brought out in this book which also includes details on the "medical malpractice power tool," provides overviews on mental illness, a major problem facing the United States, anabolic steroids and the politics of sports, mentions Ritalin, used for decades in schools, touching on a number of subject of both medical and sociological interest.Thompson, Ted Nolan is the author of 'Rise & Fall of Healthcare in America ' with ISBN 9780977454112 and ISBN 0977454118.