Comments on: Coronary: A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry – Book Review

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:08:01 +0000

It is very compelling – come on back after you’ve read it and let me know what you thought!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:37:12 +0000

Wow – this sounds like a very compelling book. I will have to save this up for my next book-club recommendations. One of the participants is a Vet and I’m sure she’d be very interested in this.
Deb on the Run
(from the Non-Fiction Five Challenge)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:34:00 +0000

Alisia: I totally agree. This book shocked me because of how egregious it was – and I just have can’t believe that these doctors ignored their duty as physicians to make a few bucks…and betrayed their patients in the process. It is so disgusting. I think your husband would like to read the book – there are many good doctors out there, but as we all know…it only takes a few doing something so horrible to mar the reputation of everyone. To this day (several years after this scandal) people in Shasta County feel some anxiety going to this particular hospital (even though the hospital is under new ownership and the “bad” guys are gone).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:22:14 +0000

It really is a shame that a small number of shady doctors that ignore the ethics they are taught in med school, combined with health corporations and insurance companies, have destroyed our ability to trust the health care system. It is an urgent problem that needs to be fixed.
This sounds like a very interesting book, I might pick it up for my hubby, who is in his 2nd year of his general surgery residency.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:40:19 +0000

Great Review Wendy. I, too, am very suspicious of doctors. I have a friend about to undergo major elective surgery and I keep driving her nuts trying to get her to get a second opinion etc.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:52:49 +0000

Kookie: You are right to do your own research and I always tell everyone to get a second opinion before doing anything invasive, including surgery. This book just reinforced that! I’m sure it would make you angry – it infuriated me!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:45:28 +0000

This sounds exactly like something I should stay away from. I’m already so suspicious of the medical establishment. My instinct is to doubt everything my doctors say until I do mounds of research myself. This book sounds like it would make me very angry. Good review.