Life in the Deadly World of Medicine offers a view into aspects of medicine where system failures carry risks to patients

NORFOLK, VA (MMD Newswire) March 19, 2009 -- More than 100,000 preventable patient deaths occur in the United States medical system each year according to scientific and journalistic reports, neurosurgeon Joseph T. McFadden states. The author's Life in the Deadly World of Medicine examines the meaning of this information, striving to point out the wonders of medicine's accomplishments as well as its fatal flaws. The book is written to present real disasters and offers ways to help "empower the patients and families to protect the patient ... and resist the dangers of total surrender to the system."

In Life in the Deadly World of Medicine, the author recognizes the American medical industry as one of the world's best, but also one with major problems. "Every person in the system may perform his duty to perfection, but no one is in charge of the patient. Families or friends must be there to guard against mishaps," he says.

The author discusses practices such as euthanasia, alternative medicine, brain death and organ donation, and he addresses issues involved with drug companies, the insurance industry and medical politics. He urges a critical shift of HMO profits from investors back to patient health care as well as legislation to "control certain actions of the drug companies." He says, "it is time for people to rise up and fire the congressmen who have come to represent the lobbyists and not their constituents."

For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author's representative at callicallul@aol.com. Life in the Deadly World of Medicine is available on line at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels.

About the Author
Joseph T. McFadden is a native of Oxford, Miss., with degrees from the University of Mississippi and the University of Virginia School of Medicine. After 43 years in neurosurgery, he retired as emeritus chairman and professor of neurosurgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He has published the award-winning medical thriller Hermes' Viper and other novels, including The Wafer and a book of short stories, Fulton's Monkey.

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