Melissa's Reviews > How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
by Otis Webb Brawley, Paul Goldberg
by Otis Webb Brawley, Paul Goldberg
Depressing all around. A sharp criticism of our health care system, filled with hopeless tidbits, such as America has the forty-fifth worst infant mortality rate on the planet, yet per capita our healthcare spending is the highest in the world. Well great, way to be, America! Expect horrific stories such as the woman with a tumor in her breast that was so big, her breast fell off or the man who had prostate cancer & begged for possibly unnecessary radiation after his surgery, which ended up giving him a rectal fistula into his bladder (this is just as appalling as it sounds); this one's a real downer. Most unfortuantely, Brawley is extremely unlikable & comes across as the one man who can do no wrong; even mistakes made early in his career seem glossed over. He portrays most doctors as either buffoons who are bumblingly in it for the money or cold-blooded charlatans who don't care who they hurt with their faulty science.
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