Book on Medical Cartel

Miscellaneous History
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Can anyone here recommend a book which documents the rise of the American Medical cartel, if such a text exists?

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I’ve heard

  • The Assault on Medical Freedom by P. Joseph Lisa

recommended a few times. Although it’s been out of print for quite some time. May be hard to find (at least for very cheap)

I also came across this list (which it is included in)

  • Racketeering in Medicine—The Suppression of Alternatives by James P. Cater, M.D., Ph.D.
  • The Drug Lords: America’s Pharmaceutical Cartel by Tonda R. Bian
  • The Big Fix by Katharine Greider (How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers)
  • The Assault on Medical Freedom by P. Joseph Lisa (Why American Health Care Costs So Much!)
  • Disease-Mongers—How Doctors, Drug Companies, and Insurers Are Making You Feel Sick by Lynn Payer
  • Under the Influence of Modern Medicine by Terry A. Rondberg, D.C.
  • The Social Transformation of American Medicine (The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry.)
  • Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D. (Approximately 2.4 million operations performed every year are unnecessary and cost about 12,000 lives. In six New York hospitals, 43 percent of performed hysterectomies reviewed were found to be unjustified. Historically, when doctors have gone on strike, the morality rate has dropped.)
  • Medical Blunders by Robert M. Youngson and Ian Schott (Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Doctors.)

(it was found at this link, so you get an idea of where those recs are coming from…but then again, it’s just a compiled list…those folks didn’t author the actual material, so for all we know it may be some excellent stuff)

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Excellent, thanks. I think I’ll check out Lisa and Bian.