Beschreibung:
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.
1. Back Pain Nation2. Even the Best and Brightest3. What's Wrong? What's Not? Can We Tell the Difference?4. Painkillers: Easy Solutions Sometimes Aren't5. Painkillers and the Marketing of Pain6. Pain Management, Now That's Money7. Stabbed in the Back8. Surgical Gadgets and the Explosion of Fusion Surgery9. 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" Treatments12. Nobody Takes It Seriously!13. Boot Camp14. Amplifying Your Voice15. Some Policy ImplicationsNotesIndex