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Product Description MEDICAL MALPRACTICE Have you ever gone to the doctor and wished you’d saved your money? Perhaps you have gone to a doctor and been sicker when you left than when you went in. Perhaps you paid exorbitant fees to tell a doctor with a glassy expression (he apparently is planning his afternoon golf game instead of listening to you) your problems, after which he acts like he never heard a word you said. Maybe you spent hundreds of dollars on prescriptions that were useless, tests that did not find any problem, expensive treatments that went nowhere but to bankruptcy or operations that did not do what the doctor promised. If so, then read on, because this book is for you. WHEN MEDICINE FAILED For the author, who experienced years of ill health with little significant medical intervention, there wasn’t much alternative to seeking medical advice. Raised in a family where education and intelligence were highly regarded, one always sought medical advice when ill. But as the years went by, it became more and more evident that either nobody knew how to treat her problems or nobody cared enough to try to. She finally, at 50, began to study her own problems and try to find solutions for them by herself. A CHANGE IN APPROACH Gradually, over a number of years, she found treatments which improved conditions she had for years, and which the doctors had never treated effectively. She began to realize that many of the treatments that had been used on her in the past had actually caused her harm, and found that doctors ordering tests did not always read them properly. The scoreboard was adding up to major fraudulent malpractice by some physicians. In the final analysis, she realized that they did not treat her conditions because they could get more money out of her by not doing so. And the medical establishment was covering up for its own. THE FINAL INSULT This came when a major medical institution failed to i