Medical Racket

by Martin L. Gross

Nationally-known social critic Martin L. Gross skewers the medical prfession with the same sharp pen he used on the federal government in the bestselling The Government Racket, and A Call for Revolution, as well as The Political Racket. Using numerous medical studies, government reports, and his own research, Gross exposes fraud and mistakes by doctors, hospitals and HMOs, costing the public billions of dollars, medical harm, and often loss of life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380787857
• ISBN13: 9780380787852
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A POTENTIAL LIFESAVER !

GROSS'S "NO BARS HOLD" APPROACH TO EXPOSING THE CORRUPT HMOs and DISTRACTED PHYSICIANS HAS HAS INFLUENCED ME TO QUESTION MY NEURO-SURGEON'S RECOMMENDATION TO FUSE MY SPINE. INSTEAD, I SEARCHED THE JOHN HOPKIN'S WHITE PAGES, AS MR. GROSS HAD DONE FOR HIS DAUGHTER, AND FOUND A PHYSICIAN THAT PERFORMS AN ENABLING VS. DISABLING SURGERY. THANKS MR. GROSS FOR WRITING THIS BOOK.

A surprising conclusion to an informative book

Any critic of HMOs needs to read this book. You will not find a better defender of your cause than Martin Gross, who also happens to be the most provocative political writer in America today. However, his remedy for the health care industry - a sort of political-community medical hybrid- only covers the last few pages of the book. This soultion, covered in little detail, should cover at least one third of the book. But because it doesn't, I feel cheated of a real solution to Mr. Gross's gripes. The real conclusion that I drew is that the solution to health care lies not with HMO destruction but with HMO reform.

Great book! Everyone should read this. I'm buying several.

It blows the whistle on the medical profession. It even explained to me, for the first time, why I had a nasal voice as a child (for 10 years) after a tonsillectomy. I'm getting a copy for all of my relatives. I know I will be a better consumer and a bigger pain in the butt for doctors after reading this.