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Plot Summary
As rising health care costs threaten to bankrupt the country, MONEY & MEDICINE tackles the medical, ethical and financial challenges of containing runaway health care spending. With remarkable candor and poignancy, MONEY & MEDICINE captures the difficult end-of-life treatment choices made by patients and their families, ranging from very aggressive interventions in the ICU to palliative care at home. The film also investigates the controversy surrounding diagnostic testing and screening as well as the shocking treatment variations among patients receiving a variety of elective procedures. In addition to illuminating the so-called waste and overtreatment that pervade our medical system, this timely documentary explores promising ways to reduce health care expenditures while improving the overall quality of medical care.
Customer Reviews
A much needed debate
This documentary asks the difficult question of whether medicine can go too far. By providing patients with better information they often choose less radical interventions, have better outcomes and cost healthcare less. Understanding the real consequences of false positives is important in deciding benefits and risks of mammography and PSA tests. The most insightful statement was from a cardiac surgeon stating he'd not choose open heart surgery on himself. In medicine, more is not necessarily better. Must watch.
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