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Summary: What?
Review: Ask the nurses who the good doctors are? Nurses like the doctors that are nice to them. The best doctors aren't always nice.
Go to a Teaching hospital if you can? So a resident can do your procedure and round on you? I think not.
Drug companies are out to rip us all off? Dr. Levine doesn't like drug companies because drugs like statins and ace inhibitors decrease his business.
Asked to be transferred during your care? So a new doctor that hasn't been following you can start all over.
Tell the ER doctor to call your Primary care doctor? So he can get whoever is on call for the group and knows nothing about you. Right. Lots of help.
Really weird stuff to come from an MD.
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Summary: A Scathing Expose of our Medical System
Review: Dr. Levine has opened the curtain to give the American people a "behind the scenes" look at our medical system: the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies, hospitals, and physicians. It is my hope that enough people will read this book so that the ball will begin to roll in the direction of major changes.
Folks, this is a MUST READ. You owe it to yourself!
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Summary: great book. A must read!
Review: I agree with all the reviews here - this is a must read. But after you read it go give it to a friend - it could save their life. As for the one review from the Texas man....probably a criminal doctor or someone who works for the pharmaceutical companies!
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Summary: I thought I knew everything until I read this book!!!!
Review: I am a registered nurse and I've worked in both hospital and doctor's office. I found Dr.Levine's book very truthful and powerful. It's amazing that he covers everything from finding a TRUE good doctor and hospital to all the dirty little secrets about doctors, hospital administrative and pharmaceutical companies. Not only patients but also all healthcare workers should read this book. Health care has gotten so complicated that you really need to know what's going on to get the best care. I applaud him for his courage and his dedication to the patients.
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Summary: Everyone Should Read
Review: I can't express how important I believe this book to be. I am a business consultant of more than 30 years. I have read extensively in many areas of business - and in Health, Wealth, Happiness, and Success. I'm not a doctor. I'm not sure there isn't some exaggeration here. But, both Dr. Levine and what he says "feels" right. And, even if it isn't, it is a wonderful checklist of things to watch our for and check against. I plan to purchase additional copies for members of my family. I plan to recommend this book to those who attend my seminars.
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Summary: Shocking and revealing!
Review: I was shocked to learn that drug companies and medical suppliers "court" and "pay" (my quotes) doctors to use their products.
The author explains the process behind the FDA approving a drug and that some doctors have a conflict of interest while taking part in the approval process.
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Summary: This is Dr. Evan Levine
Review: I wish I didn't have to leave a rating, but since I did I certainly wasn't going to leave a bad one or write one under a pseudonym. I'm trying to do the right thing here, and make all of you aware that this health care system stinks! It stinks for the patients and it stinks for the good doctors out there. I try to present a well balanced review of the system and give all of you advice on how to get decent care. The Publisher's Weekly review feels that it is impossible to ever leave a hospital that is substandard, obviously this "writer" doesn't know what's going on out there. I've helped patients get out of these hospitals for years,and give actual case stories in the book. They also think that it is obvious that eveyone knows only to go to a doctor that accepts your insurance. But I'm sure many of you reading this have have made trips to the doctor's office not knowing if the doctor took your insurance or worse gotten care from doctors who informed you afterwards (sometimes by a staggering bill) that they did not accept your insurance. I want all of you to know that I wrote this book because so many people (first family , then friends, and friends of friends) came to me wondering if they were getting good care. Too often the were not! I hope this helps. Evan S. Levine
PS, e-mail me at evanlevinemd.com if you have questions.
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Summary: great book! Gutsy doctor!
Review: This excellent book only underscores what we're all learning the hard way--the days of putting complete trust in your doctor are over. Levine has written a pretty scary book. He starts with what happens in the hospital--the standard procedures to make life easier for an overworked, undertrained staff that can result in deadly infections, the dangers of the emergency room, the perilous journey from your room to your x-ray or a lab. Levine then transitions to your doctor's office, and details the many ways you can be talked into unnecessary tests, medications or procedures. Needless to say the pharmaceutical industry takes a beating, as Levine describes how doctors are pressured into prescribing new drugs when older, cheaper generics are just as good if not better.
The bottom line is that each of us is responsible for our own care, and luckily with the internet we have the tools we need to make informed decisions. If I can sum up Levine's advice in one word, it's question, question, question!
My only problem with this book really lies with the publisher--it badly needs a good index! The book is chockful of good information especially in the area of cardiology, Levine's specialty, but going back and finding it would be a chore. Maybe in the paperback....
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Summary: Honesty and Courage Personified
Review: This incredibly valuable book is characterized by almost reckless honesty in combination with a concern for the welfare of patients that I have encountered nowhere else to date.
If it is read casually, there is much of critical value; if studied carefully, there is even more.
Dr. Levine had earned the gratitude of everyone who reads the book as well as all others because, with his trail blazing book, he has put the medical establishment on notice that they can no longer depend on the code of silence that has for so long protected inadequate and impaired heath care professionals. And it's high time.
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Summary: great book! Gutsy doctor!
Review: Where are all the television and newspapers? They interview idiots like Suzanne Summers ( she just wrote? a book) yet this important book is not on any of the shows. Shame on the networks for not telling the country about this great book!
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