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Informationen zum Autor Thomas P. Stossel, M.D., is a hematologist and medical researcher at Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he is the American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine. He has authored more than 290 publications and two textbooks, and is an inventor on 11 issued patents. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the founder and scientific director of two biotechnology start-up companies, a cofounder - along with his wife Kerry Maguire, D.D.S., M.S.P.H. and others - of the medical outreach organization Options for Children in Zambia, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Klappentext While plenty can be said about the dysfunction of our health care system, rarely do business and private players in health care innovation get a good rap. This book takes on skeptics of the partnership between the medical community, political groups, and private businesses, by illustrating how such cooperation can result in world-class innovation and health care delivery. Zusammenfassung While plenty can be said about the dysfunction of our health care system! rarely do business and private players in health care innovation get a good rap. This book takes on skeptics of the partnership between the medical community! political groups! and private businesses! by illustrating how such cooperation can result in world-class innovation and health care delivery. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: Some Benefits and the Mechanics of Medical InnovationChapter 1: The StakesChapter 2: A Practitioner's History of Medical InnovationPart II: Why We Have a Medical Innovation CrisisChapter 3: Enter the Conflict-of-Interest ManiaChapter 4: The Mania MongersPart III: Why They Are WrongChapter 5: Abusing EvidenceChapter 6: Bad Policy ProcessChapter 7: Flawed and Damaging PoliciesChapter 8: Misunderstanding InnovationChapter 9: Economic IlliteracyChapter 10: Misplaced Criticism of Incremental InnovationChapter 11: Rushing to Judgment with Product Safety AlarmsChapter 12: Demonizing Marketing is False AdvertisingChapter 13: The "Gift" Smoke ScreenChapter 14: The Lawyers' BallPart IV: The Damage They Do and How to Stop ItChapter 15: The Price We PayChapter 16: What Is To Be Done?...
