Predictive health : how we can reinvent medicine to extend our best years / Kenneth Brigham and Mich...
Predictive health : how we can reinvent medicine to extend our best years / Kenneth Brigham and Mich...
Predictive health : how we can reinvent medicine to extend our best years / Kenneth Brigham and Michael M.E. Johns.
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New York : Basic Books, c2012.
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N362.10973/80
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English
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xii, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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New York : Basic Books, c2012.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2012.
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Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget{8212}nearly $175 billion{8212}is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcar...
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Predictive health : how we can reinvent medicine to extend our best years / Kenneth Brigham and Michael M.E. Johns.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2012.
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N362.10973/80
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74Vv4LGoMbLy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv4LGoMbLy
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0465032990 (e-book : alk. paper)
9780465023127 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0465023126 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780465032990 (e-book : alk. paper)
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362.10973
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991015490139702626
