The Treatment Trap

The Treatment Trap - How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking your Health and what you can do to Prevent it
Cover showing a surgeon looking down at a patient on an operating table
AuthorRosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh
SubjectUnnecessary health care
PublisherIvan R. Dee, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Publication date
2010
Publication placeUnited States
Pages237
ISBN978-1-56663-842-5
OCLC430192281

The Treatment Trap - How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking your Health and what you can do to Prevent it is a 2010 book by Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh.

Summary

Reviews

A reviewer for Oncology Times said that the book was "beautifully written—clear and direct, filled with facts bookended by stories".[1] AARP described the book as an exploration of "the reasons why many physicians are overly cautious, incompetent, or under great pressure to produce revenues in a health care system that seems to encourage these practices".[2] A magazine review said that the message of the book was that "When it comes to health care, more is not always better."[3]

Books by the same author

Gibson co-authored the 2018 non-fiction, China Rx : exposing the risks of America's dependence on China for medicine with Janardan Prasad Singh[4]

References

  1. ^ Meier, D. E. (2010). "BOOK REVIEW: 'The Treatment Trap: How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It" by Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh". Oncology Times. 32 (12): 56. doi:10.1097/01.COT.0000383779.35289.83.
  2. ^ Lombardo, Tom (8 April 2010). "Overtested, Overmedicated, and Overtreated - Q&A with Rosemary Gibson". aarp.org. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  3. ^ Ervin, Kathleen A. "The Treatment Trap". Failure Magazine. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  4. ^ Prometheus: "Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it-- and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This probing book examines the implications for the quality and availability of vital medicines for consumers". Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books: Prometheus Books. 2018. ISBN 9781633883826. OCLC 1003132285.