Product Description

Patients and insurers-natural allies! The medical industry, if left to its own, will continue to escalate healthcare costs regardless of how marginal or non-existent the benefit. The best hope for patients and their insurers to purchase high quality medical care at a fair price is SmartMedicine-the substitution of efficient and rational high-quality care for the current use of unjustified, wasteful medical practices. This book is a primer on buying SmartMedicine, intended for patients and their insurers. Dr. Wallner uses prostate cancer to illustrate:

-how costs are inflated by not-so-Smart medical policies
-how patients and insurers can push for change

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2347722 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .59" h x 6.22" w x 8.08" l, .77 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

About the Author
Kent Wallner is a nationally recognized expert in the treatment of cancer. He received his M.D. from the Ohio State University and did his residency in oncology at the University of California in San Francisco. He was on staff at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City from 1987 to 1996, moving to the University of Washington and the Seattle Veterans Administration in 1996. In addition to approximately 100 scientific articles, Dr. Wallner has written a popular patient-oriented information book: Prostate Cancer: A non-surgical perspective and a ground-breaking text: Prostate Brachytherapy made complicated.