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How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
by Elisabeth Rosenthal
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by Rina Raphael
Published Sep 2023
Read ReviewsJournalist Rina Raphael looks at the explosion of the wellness industry: how it stems from legitimate complaints, how seductive marketing targets hopeful consumers–and why women are opening up their wallets like never before.
by Jamie Ducharme
Published Jun 2022
Read ReviewsA propulsive, eye-opening work of reporting, chronicling the rise of Juul and the birth of a new addiction.
by Marty Makary
Published Jun 2021
Read ReviewsOne in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble.
by Eric Eyre
Published Apr 2021
Read ReviewsFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter from the smallest newspaper ever to win the prize in the investigative reporting category, an urgent, riveting, and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns, decimating communities.
by Edward Bullmore
Published Dec 2019
Read ReviewsWorldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next twenty years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still...until now with Edward Bullmore's The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression.
by Henry Marsh
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsAn unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital, and a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life's most difficult decisions.
by Terrence Holt
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsOut of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made.
by Brendan Reilly
Published Nov 2014
Read ReviewsAn epic story told by a unique voice in American medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician.
by Wendell Potter
Published Sep 2011
Read ReviewsIn Deadly Spin, Potter takes readers behind the scenes to show how a huge chunk of our absurd healthcare spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits
by Atul Gawande
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsThe New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession
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