Product Description

If your doctor recommends getting an angiogram, coronary bypass surgery, balloon angioplasty, or taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, your best course of action may be to run out the door. For most people these procedures/treatments are not effective and are completely unnecessary. The most popular medical procedures are the most profitable for the health care industry but are often the least effective. Hundreds of thousands of people each year are deceived in undergoing expensive medical treatments that do no good and may even do a great deal of harm. Highly effective procedures that are low-risk and inexpensive are ignored or even ridiculed. Recommending expensive, high-risk procedures over the cheaper, more effective ones amounts to nothing more than fraud. If you had the choice of going through a risky $20,000 surgical procedure or simply taking a daily vitamin supplement which one would you choose? Most patients aren't given the choice. These facts, and more, led the author to write this hard hitting, expose of the health care system. In it, you will learn which procedures and treatments to avoid and which ones offer the most hope. If you are concerned about heart disease, and everyone should be, you need to read this book!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83183 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

A revelation
Dr. McGee is a well-established doctor who supports every single statement with scientific studies. At the end of the book, he discloses an excellent bibliography with a summary of the major studies he refers to in order to advance his arguments.

The book uncovers how the American Medical Association has ignored such scientific studies to advance the lucrative and unnecessary practices of bypass, angioplasty, and cholesterol-lowering drugs; that the vast majority of bypass surgeries are unnecessary; that angiograms are hopelessly inaccurate but the more accurate quantitative angioplasty test is never used outside of research studies; and that cholesterol-lowering drugs are ineffective. Exactly the same thing is going on in the UK, albeit at a somewhat reduced level, so don't dismiss all this as a purely American scam.

Despite some typos and grammatical errors, this is a witty, often hilarious, and always to-the-point attack on the hugely profitable industry around heart disease. I first read it years ago, just when it was first published and I was beginning to lose my trusting naivete around doctors, when I found it shocking and horrifying.