An investigative journalist explains the fundamental underlying problem of today's health care system. Should be required reading for everyone who has contact with doctors or hospitals, including doctors themselves.

A medical doctor and a social scientist point out how unrealistic expectations and marketing hype lead to the waste of funds on treatments that are unnecessary and often harmful.

An investigative journalist explains how drug companies, insurers and the media exaggerate the seriousness of health problems, and the harm that results. (See also her book "Medicine and Culture.")

Science and medicine reporters tell why the medicalization of normal human conditions, and the redefinition of diseases so that they seem to affect more people, is harmful to patients and to society.

The fallacies in ten widely-promoted medical dogmas of today.

A health policy researcher at George Washington University dicusses the dangerous effects of many prescription drugs. (See also his books "Lifespan" and "Deadly Medicine.")

A practicing internist and cardiologist reveals that too often, unnecessary and sometimes harmful tests and treatments are performed for the profit of the health care industry.

A professor at Dartmouth Medical School explains why screening for cancer often does more harm than good.

A medical researcher in Finland reveals the invalidity of the studies used to advocate use of statin drugs and the harm that they sometimes cause.

A former astronaut and NASA flight surgeon tells of the serious condition (transient amnesia) he and other have suffered from the unnecessary use of statin drugs.

A prominent psychiatrist explains the damage often done by drugs and other treatments for depression. (See also his books "Talking Back to Prozac.)"

An investigative journalist discusses the dangers presented by many forms of routine medical care.

Articles by physicians exposing the faulty science that underlies many of today's common medical practices. Some of these views are controversial, others are incontestable.

A geriatrician explains why routine medical tests and treatments are often undesirable. Though focused on the elderly, much of the discussion also applies to younger people.

A medical anthropologist at the Univ. of California discusses how bureaucracy and the law usually lead to the use of "heroic" rather than humane treatment for the dying.

An eminent psychiatrist known for his libertarian views discusses how our society's medical policy threatens democracy and individual freedom. (See also his book "The Theology of Medicine.")