Mediscams: How to Spot and Avoid Healthcare Scams, Medical Frauds, and Quackery from the Local Physician to the Major Healthcare Providers and Drug Manufacturers

By Chuck Whitlock

Chuck Whitlock, the crusading, award-winning investigative journalist for television newsmagazines, leads us into the underworld of MediScams. Almost certainly you will find stories here that mirror your own experiences of atrocities and deceptions perpetrated by some health care providers. You will also discover much you don't know about the ways that medical quackery, good intentions gone bad, and unrepentant greed combine to create tragedy in America's families. You will see, as well, how medical fraud consumes health care dollars by the billions. Are you in need? The MediScam artists are there with false promises of therapies, cures, and treatments.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580631800
• ISBN13: 9781580631808
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

cool book

This book is an unusual combination of amazing stories and very, very practical advice. It is both entertaining while giving excellent warnings and tips on how to avoid being taken advantage of. Some of the information is both shocking and disturbing, but very sound advice. Anyone frustrated with their doctor or an HMO will find it especially enlightening. Some of the examples of quacks literally had me slack-jawed.