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Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Brian Wansink
Bantam, 2007
thought provoking and effective
+ Good read
+ This is eye opening!!
+ Don't eat with your eyes
+ fun reading
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Market-driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses In The Transformation Of America's Largest Service Industry
Regina Herzlinger
Basic Books, 1999
So she's no Tolstoy, but the ideas are great.
No one will accuse Ms. Herzlinger of being a great writer, but her conversational style is easy to read and she does have some good ideas for how the healthcare industry should be. Ideas that still haven't been implemented even now, 8 years after it was written. She does make a fairly convincing ...
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Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
Jessica Snyder Sachs
Hill and Wang, 2007
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Body
+ Easy reading for the microbe curious
+ If you have a body, read this book
+ Very Well-Written Science for the Average Reader
+ My review is short, easy to read
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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Shannon Brownlee
Bloomsbury USA, 2007
Thoughtful and Thorough Study of the Health Care Crisis
+ Root cause for spiraling health care costs in the US
+ Excellent and important book
+ Crash Course on the Healthcare Crisis
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Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
John Abramson
Harper Perennial, 2005
Sorting out medical knowledge from advertising
+ Overdo$ed Is Right
+ Simply a must read
+ From a pharmacist
+ Wake-up Call
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A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care
Dr. Arnold Relman
PublicAffairs, 2007
Excellent and Authoritative Information
+ A Second Opinion, Arnold Relman MD
+ Worthy concerns, weak arguments
+ A very important issue in the U.S.
+ Second Opinion Seconded
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The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Marcia Angell
Random House, 2004
An eye opening book which aroused my interest in the whole field
+ worthwhile
+ Read this!
+ axe to grind
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande
Picador, 2008
Another Great Look Inside the Medical Profession
+ Better: Diligence, Doing Right and Ingenuity
+ His writing skills are superb
+ Gawande is as good with the pen as with the scalpel
+ A Straightforward and Thought-Provoking Work
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Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Review
+ Congratulations
+ How sick is US Healthcare
+ Excellent analysis with some weak points
+ Redefining Health Care
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Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
Maggie Mahar
Collins Business, 2006
More money spent doesn't always result in better outcomes
+ Highly Recommended
+ Another outstanding book on healthcare in the USA
+ First Class Treatment
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Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
Sandeep Jauhar
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
What it's REALLY like to become a doctor
+ Deceptively Interesting
+ Review on Intern
+ Must read for those thinking about a medical career
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Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Brian Wansink
Bantam, 2007
thought provoking and effective
+ Good read
+ This is eye opening!!
+ Don't eat with your eyes
+ fun reading
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A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care
Dr. Arnold Relman
PublicAffairs, 2007
Excellent and Authoritative Information
+ A Second Opinion, Arnold Relman MD
+ Worthy concerns, weak arguments
+ A very important issue in the U.S.
+ Second Opinion Seconded
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Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
Jessica Snyder Sachs
Hill and Wang, 2007
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Body
+ Easy reading for the microbe curious
+ If you have a body, read this book
+ Very Well-Written Science for the Average Reader
+ My review is short, easy to read
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Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Review
+ Congratulations
+ How sick is US Healthcare
+ Excellent analysis with some weak points
+ Redefining Health Care
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