Mediscams: How to Spot and Avoid Health Care Scams, Medical Frauds, and Quackery from the Local Physician to the Major Health Care Providers and Drug manufacture - Tapa dura

An investigative reporter and consumer advocate provides an inside look at the world of medical scams in which medical quackery, malpractice, and intentional greed have ripped off billions of dollars in American health-care funds, discussing the dark secrets of HMOs, pharmaceutical ripoffs, Medicaid and Medicare fraud, and more. 30,000 first printing.

Chuck Whitlock is a nationally recognized investigative reporter whose investigations into white-collar crime and exposés of nursing home and Medicare irregularities have garnered him national recognition. A tireless scambuster and consumer advocate, he has appeared on such television shows as Oprah, Hard Copy, and Regis and Kathie Lee. He is currently in negotations with Fox to air his TV show, Crimeline. Whitlock is also the author of five previous books. He lives in southwestern Washington State.