Book Reviews – Health Care

Reviews by Del Meyer, MD

Shorter versions have appeared in Sacramento Medicine, Medical Sentinel, California Physician, St. Croix Review.

• A Call to Action – Taking Back Healthcare for Future Generations  by Hank McKinnell, 2005
• America Alone – The End of the World as we Know it  by Mark Steyn, 2006.
• The American Way of Health – How Medicine is Changing and What it Means to You  by Janice Castro, 1994.
• Bioterrorism: How You Can Survive  by Russell L Blaylock, MD, 2001.
• The Cancer Ward  by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, English Translation 1974. (Russian 1968)
• Health Care Co-Ops in Uganda – Effectively Launching Micro Health Care Groups in African Villages  by George C. Halvorson, 2007.
• Healthcare Online for Dummies (www.dummies.com) by Howard Wolinsky & Judi Wolinsky, Hungry Minds, Inc, (www.hungryminds.com), 2001.
• Doctoring – The Nature of Primary Care Medicine  by Eric J Cassell, MD, 1997.
• False Hopes – Why America’s Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure  by Daniel Callahan, 1998.
• Health Care Crises – The Search for Answers   Edited by Robert I Misbin, MD, Bruce Jennings, MA,
  David Orentlicher, MD, JD, and Marvin Dewar, MD, JD, 1995.
• The Health Care Solution – Understanding the Crises and the Cure by C. Duane Dauner, with Michael Bowker, 1994.
• Life Without Disease – The Pursuit of Medical Utopia  by William B Schwartz, MD, 1998.
• Market  Driven Health Care  – Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America’s Largest Service Industry  by Regina Herzlinger, 1997.
• The Measure of Our Days – New Beginnings at Life’s End  by Jerome Groopman, MD, 1997.
• Mortal Peril – Our Inalienable Right to Health Care?  by Richard A. Epstein, 1997.
• Patient Power: The Free-Enterprise Alternative to Clinton’s Health Plan by John C Goodman, PhD and Gerald L Musgrave, PhD, 1994
• Putting Our House In Order – A Guide to Social Security & Health Care Reform  by George P. Shultz and John B. Shoven, 2008
• Sutton’s Law  by Jane M Orient, MD and Linda J Wright, 1997.
• Trust Betrayed – Inside the AARP  by Dale Van Atta, 1998.
• Vandals at the Gates of Medicine – Historical Perspectives On The Battle Over Health Care Reform  by Miguel A Faria, Jr, MD, 1998.
• Who Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life  by Spencer Johnson, MD, 1998.
• Your Doctor is Not In – Healthy Skepticism about National Health Care  by Jane M. Orient, MD, 1994.