Getting What We Deserve

Author: Alfred Sommer
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0801893879
Category: Medical

Getting What We Deserve: Health and Medical Care in America

One of America's leading public health experts finds a host of ills in this country's health care system:a The United States spends nearly twice as much on health care as the rest of the developed world, yet has higher infant mortality rates and shorter longevity than most nations. Download Getting What We Deserve medical books for free.
We have access to many different drugs that accomplish the same end at varying costs, and nearly all are cheaper abroad.a Our life span had doubled over the past century before we developed effective drugs to treat most diseases or even considered altering the human genome.a The benefits of almost all newly developed treatments are marginal, while their costs are high.In his blunt assessment of the state of public health in America, Alfred Sommer argues th Get Getting What We Deserve our bestseller medical books.

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