2. Study Casts Doubt on Claims That the Medical Malpractice System Is Plagued By Frivolous Lawsuits , Harvard School of Public Health , May 10, 2006
3. Too Many Malpractice Suits, Or Not Enough? , By Solange De Santis, ConsumerAffairs.Com , October 18, 2004
Also see, Medical Malpractice in TX : is one of many articles, facts, and research published by, Public Citizen , regarding lawsuit propaganda.
4. Prescription Drug Scams , by Dean Baker, Thruthout , June 29, 2006
Drug Trials Hide Conflicts for Doctors , by KURT EICHENWALD and GINA KOLATA, May 16, 1999 Insurers Pay Doctors to Switch to Generics , by Joe Mantone, The Wall Street Journal Health Blog, Jan 24, 2008.
Med-tech perks for doctors questioned , by JANET MOORE , Star Tribune , Feb 28, 2008
Is Something Rotten in the State of Radiology? , by Leonard Berlin, MD, FACR, Imaging Economics , March 2007
5. Profit-Seekers , by Payne Hertz , Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Also see, Needless Surgery , Reprinted from Consumer Reports on Health (March 1998)
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To Go Under the Knife--or Not? , by Kate Murphy, Business Week , July 7 2003 Health Department Fines Parkway Hospital $32,000 for Performing Unnecessary Surgeries on Patients from Leben Home , state of New York Department of Health, 7/16/01
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans File $30 Million Lawsuit Alleging "Rent a Patient" Fraud in Southern California , Summary by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, BMC Cancer. 2005; 5: 94. Published online 2005 August 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-94.
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Atrocity , Elizabeth Eugenia James-LaBozetta
Central Ohio Patient's-rights Service (C.O.P.S.) and Citizens for Medical Safety
6. High Rate of Failure Estimated for Silicone Breast Implants , by GARDINER HARRIS, New York Times, Published: April 7, 2005
7. Breast surgery accelerates recurrences in some women. , Heatlh Facts, Nov 5, 200
Trauma-associated growth of suspected dormant micrometastasis , Nagi S El Saghir,1 Ihab I Elhajj,1 Fady B Geara,2 and Mukbil H Hourani3 BMC Cancer. 2005; 5: 94. Published online 2005 August 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-94.
STRESS HORMONES MAY PLAY NEW ROLE IN SPEEDING UP CANCER GROWTH , Cancer Research , Nov. 1, 2006 republished OHSU Research News
Tumor dormancy: not so sleepy after all , by Cliff Murray, Nature Medicine , 1, 117 - 118 (1995)
Does surgery unfavorably perturb the "natural history" of early breast cancer by accelerating the appearance of distant metastases?, European Journal of Cancer , Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 508-515 M. Baum, R. Demicheli, W. Hrushesky, M. Retsky
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