Exposing the Twenty Medical Myths

Arthur “Tim” Garson is Director of the Health Policy Institute at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, which is the largest medical center in the world. He has been Dean of Medicine and Provost of the University of Virginia, President of the American College of Cardiology, Chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is an elected member of the National Academy of Science’s National Academy of Medicine. He is the author of Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality (R&L, 2007). Ryan Holeywell is Director of Communications at the Texas Medical Center and a former journalist for publications including the Houston Chronicle and Governing magazine. He has appeared on CNN, NPR and CNBC to discuss his work.

Highly Recommended: . . . a concise, up-to-date, rigorously referenced analysis of 20 of the most troublesome "myths" that continue to misguide the American public’s views about health care. . . this text can be helpful to undergraduate and graduate students, health care policy scholars, and anyone who still believes that health care in the US is the best in the world.