Richard A Deyo

Watch Your Back!

How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less--And What You Can Do to Inform and Empower Yourself in Seeking Treatment

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Produktbeschreibung

Richard A. Deyo, MD, is Professor of Family Medicine, Professor of Internal Medicine, and Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University. Winner of the Wiltse Lifetime Achievement Award given by the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, he is coauthor of Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780801453243
• ISBN-10: 0801453240
• Artikelnr.: 40919031

Autorenporträt

Richard A. Deyo, M.D.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Back Pain Nation
2. Even the Best and Brightest
3. What's Wrong? What's Not? Can We Tell the Difference?
4. Painkillers: Easy Solutions Sometimes Aren't
5. Painkillers and the Marketing of Pain
6. Pain Management, Now That's Money
7. Stabbed in the Back
8. Surgical Gadgets and the Explosion of Fusion Surgery
9. The Pointed Search for Relief: Injections, Ablations, and Blocks, Oh My!
10. Why Would You Get Better after Useless Therapy?
11. Manipulating the Pain: Chiropractic and Other "Alternative" Treatments
12. Nobody Takes It Seriously!
13. Boot Camp
14. Amplifying Your Voice
15. Some Policy ImplicationsNotes
Index