America's Bitter Pill

America's Bitter Pill
Author: Steven Brill
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812996968

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A tour de force . . . a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare . . . persuasive, shocking.”—The New York Times America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare. And it is the first complete, inside account of how President Obama persevered to push through the law, but then failed to deal with the staff incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation. But by chance America’s Bitter Pill ends up being much more—because as Brill was completing this book, he had to undergo urgent open-heart surgery. Thus, this also becomes the story of how one patient who thinks he knows everything about healthcare “policy” rethinks it from a hospital gurney—and combines that insight with his brilliant reporting. The result: a surprising new vision of how we can fix American healthcare so that it stops draining the bank accounts of our families and our businesses, and the federal treasury. Praise for America’s Bitter Pill “An energetic, picaresque, narrative explanation of much of what has happened in the last seven years of health policy . . . [Brill] has pulled off something extraordinary.”—The New York Times Book Review “A thunderous indictment of what Brill refers to as the ‘toxicity of our profiteer-dominated healthcare system.’ ”—Los Angeles Times “A sweeping and spirited new book [that] chronicles the surprisingly juicy tale of reform.”—The Daily Beast “One of the most important books of our time.”—Walter Isaacson “Superb . . . Brill has achieved the seemingly impossible—written an exciting book about the American health system.”—The New York Review of Books

A Bitter Pill

A Bitter Pill
Author: John Sloan
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2009
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1553654552

"Medical treatment of elderly people is not working. Worse, it is often harmful. Clear, hard-hitting, and authoritative, A Bitter Pill investigates why the medical system - from its one-size-fits-all prevention strategy to hospital stays that don't benefit anyone - is failing old people who are in fragile health and what we can do about it." --Book Jacket.

Bitter Pill

Bitter Pill
Author: Fern Michaels
Publisher: Zebra Books
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1420152092

No one weaves a story as well as beloved New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. In the latest in the Sisterhood series, a team of unscrupulous doctors is profiting from others’ distress—but these loyal friends know just the cure . . . For the Sisterhood, there’s a special satisfaction that comes with helping a friend in need, especially when it’s someone as dear as Charlotte Hansen. Myra Rutledge’s childhood friend has spent tens of thousands of dollars on remedies to boost longevity. But far from improving her health, the medications seem to be destroying it. Myra becomes suspicious of the trio of doctors in charge of the program, especially once the Sisterhood’s investigations reveal that one patient has died, and another lapsed into a coma. While those in their care suffer, the three doctors—located in London, Aspen, and New York—all enjoy indulgent lifestyles and extravagant toys. But justice is always the best medicine—and no one dispenses it better than the Sisterhood . . .

Bitter Pills

Bitter Pills
Author: Stephen Fried
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2011-04-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0307785483

We take our medicines on faith. We assume our doctors are well-informed, our drug companies scrupulous, our FDA diligent—and our medications safe. All too often we're wrong. Just how wrong is documented in this critically acclaimed portrait of the international pharmaceutical industry by one of our most highly respected investigative journalists. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), adverse drug reactions are the fourth leading cause of death in America. Reactions to prescription and over-the-counter medications kill far more people annually than all illegal drug use combined. Stephen Fried's wife took a pill for a minor infection—and ended up in the emergency room. Some drug reactions go away in a few hours or days. Diane's did not. This emotionally wrenching experience launched Fried into a five-year examination of the entire pharmaceutical industry, the most profitable legal business in the world. Rigorously documented, Bitter Pills is a full-scale portrait of pill making and pill taking in America today, presented through the powerful human drama of doctors, patients, drug companies, the FDA, and government regulators as they war for control of our medicine cabinets.

A Bitter Pill to Swallow

A Bitter Pill to Swallow
Author: Tiffany Gholar
Publisher: Tiffany Gholar
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2016-01-20
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1508096058

On the edge of the Chicago medical district, the Harrison School for Exceptional Youth looks like a castle in a snow globe. Janina has been there since she was ten years old, and now she's fourteen. She feels so safe inside its walls that she's afraid to leave. Devante's parents bring him there after a tragedy leaves him depressed and suicidal. Even though he's in a different place, he can't escape the memories that come flooding back when he least expects them. Dr. Gail Thomas comes to work there after quitting her medical residency. Frustrated and on the verge of giving up on her dreams, she sees becoming a counselor as her last chance to put her skills to the test. When he founded the school, Dr. Lutkin designed its unique environment to be a place that would change the students' lives. He works hard as the keeper of other people's secrets, though he never shares any of his own. But everything changes late in the winter of 1994 when these four characters' lives intersect in unexpected ways. None of them will ever be the same.

Bitter Pills

Bitter Pills
Author: Dianna Melrose
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1982
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This report on the relationship between health problems and the sale of medicines in the Third World concludes with a call for greater international control of pharmaceutical sales and promotion.

Swallowing a Bitter Pill

Swallowing a Bitter Pill
Author: Cindy R. Mogil
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Drug abuse
ISBN: 9780882822112

After killing a young man with her car, Mogil began abusing such prescription drugs as Darvon, Demerol and Percodan, and remained addicted for over 15 years. Drawing on her own and others' experiences (with numerous first-hand accounts), the author strongly suggests that prescription drug addicts should admit their powerlessness over the addiction, find a good therapist and locate a sponsor (someone who has overcome the same problem) for feedback and support.

Bitter Pill

Bitter Pill
Author: Stacey Kade
Publisher: Stacey Kade Books
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780988585942

The truth is a bitter pill... Rennie Harlow is having a bad year. She had a handsome husband, a good job, and a renovated condo in Chicago. Now, thanks to one "exotically beautiful" paralegal, she's divorced, faking her way through a writing career, and living above her hypochondriac mother's garage back in Morrisville, the small town she couldn't leave fast enough at eighteen. On top of all of that, she just found Doc Hallacy, the local pharmacist, dead behind his counter. And the worst part is, he's the third body she's stumbled across this year. Jake Bristol has lived in Morrisville his whole life. A former bad boy turned sheriff, he doesn't believe it's just Rennie's luck or timing that's the problem. He thinks she's too nosy for her own good. The last thing he needs is her messing around with his murder investigation so that she can freelance for the Morrisville Gazette. But as they both delve deeper into Doc's death, they find that things don't add up. This isn't a robbery gone wrong or the work of a desperate junkie. Someone has a secret they're killing to keep. The only question is-who's next?

A Bitter Pill

A Bitter Pill
Author: Dr Aseem Malhotra
Publisher: Green Tree
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-25
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781472935243

Global health systems are forecast to collapse in the next few years. Two things are driving ever-increasing demand. The first is the escalating burden of chronic disease, caused by entirely preventable lifestyle related illnesses. The second is over treatment. Millions of people are taking drugs and undergoing tests and operations that will give them no benefit and they don't even know it--not because we don't have the scientific evidence but because it's being sequestered from them. Collusion between doctors, politicians, respected medical institutions, 'charities' and medical journals, for financial gain, has resulted in an epidemic of misinformation with devastating consequences for our health worldwide. This is the story of the author's own first-hand experience in not only discovering the truth behind our health (including his own) but taking on and exposing the manipulations of those vested interests that are benefiting from an increasingly fat and sick society. This story will also expose the attempts to silence those who call for greater transparency, including the author's own experience of personal attacks and attempts to destroy his career. The system is broken. Dr. Malhotra's mission is to fix it!