How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
Otis Webb Brawley, Paul Goldberg
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781250015761
- Published:
- 01 Nov 2012
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Dimensions:
- 320 pages - 210 x 140mm
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Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy career. In How We Do Harm he exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the under treatment of the poor, the overtreatment of the rich, the financial conflicts of interests physicians face, insurance that doesn’t demand the best (or even cheapest) care, and a pharmaceutical behemoth concerned with selling drugs, not providing health.
How We Do Harm is a call for rational care, drawn from results-based, scientifically reproducible treatments and protocols based on science, and not the new, hot drug. Guided by the maxim he learned in Jesuit high school, “say what you know, what you don’t know, and what you believe—and label it accordingly,” Dr. Brawley believes scepticism should be the mainstream. D r. Brawley’s personal history serves as a window into an experienced and passionate view of medicine and the politics of treatment, and How We Do Harm is his well-reasoned manifesto for change.
DR. OTIS BRAWLEY is the chief medical and scientific officer and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society. Dr. Brawley currently serves as professor of hematology, oncology, medicine and epidemiology at Emory University. He is also a CNN medical consultant. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, and completed a residency in internal medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case-Western Reserve University, and a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute.
PAUL GOLDBERG is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers oncology for The Cancer Letter, a weekly publication focused on drug development and the politics of cancer. His articles have appeared in "The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly" and he has been featured on "60 Minutes," "20/20, ""CNN" and "NPR." Goldberg is also the author of two books on the Soviet human rights movement.
A tough-minded, solidly argued indictment of health care . . . Brawley’s sense of outrage is palpable." —The Boston Globe