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America's Tunnel Vision - How Insurance Companies' Propaganda is Corrupting Medicine and Law

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One of the principle causes of death and injury in the United States today is the widespread reality of doctors who are too rushed to give proper attention to their patients. The haste is created by the pressure upon physicians by insurance companies control care decision, inadequate information about new drugs, a rigid healthcare framework, the insurance and pharmaceutical company financed corruption of the justice system from the congress to the courthouse. America's Tunnel Vision: How Insurance Companies' Propaganda Is Corrupting Medicine And Law by Michael Townes Watson (a former Adjunct Professor of Medical Malpractice law, a practitioner in Law and Medicine for more than thirty years, and the author of four law books and numerous articles on legal/medical issues) is a clarion call to make right what has gone wrong in the medical and judicial systems. In an era when hospital error kills more people than any form of cancer (except lung cancer), when you are five times ore likely to be injured in a hospital than when driving your car, when insurance companies think your life is worth less if you are hurt by a doctor than if you are hurt by a drunk driver, and when insurance companies have taken over the practice of medicine and are now in the active process of taking over the justice system, it's only men and women like Michael Watson and books like America's Tunnel Vision that can hope to awaken the general public to what is going on and to motivate them to corrective action. Simply stated, America's Tunnel Vision is "must" reading for all health care and medical reform activists, and needs to be placed in the Social Issues reference collections of every community and academic library in the country.

If you are a healthcare consumer you can't afford not to read this book. Author Michael Townes Watson uses actual accounts from real cases to inform the reader of injustices that are being carried out in what is described as a "stealth-like" fashion. The book sends a strong message that if we as a nation do not become more aware and informed; then more and more of us are going to be adversely affected by the lawmakers that are currently attempting to pass bills that prevent victims of medical malpractice from receiving the aid of the justice system. The book is equally entertaining as it is informative, containing facts about widely publicized cases and dispelling the myths about their outcomes. A book on this topic could have the potential to be extremely boring, but this one was anything but. Definitely recommend.