TY - JOUR
T1 - Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises
AU - Moynihan, Ray
PY - 2006/4/6
Y1 - 2006/4/6
N2 - Imagine, if you will, a long line running from left to right, from one extreme to the other. The pole at the left hand end of the continuum represents a pathological obsession with new health technologies, and at the right hand end an all-consuming cynical rejection of the value of medical advances. Somewhere in the middle is the healthy scepticism we all strive for, yet find so elusive, particularly when we or our loved ones fall ill
AB - Imagine, if you will, a long line running from left to right, from one extreme to the other. The pole at the left hand end of the continuum represents a pathological obsession with new health technologies, and at the right hand end an all-consuming cynical rejection of the value of medical advances. Somewhere in the middle is the healthy scepticism we all strive for, yet find so elusive, particularly when we or our loved ones fall ill
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85007756559&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1136/bmj.332.7545.859-a
DO - 10.1136/bmj.332.7545.859-a
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
AN - SCOPUS:85007756559
SN - 0959-8138
VL - 332
SP - 859
EP - 859
JO - BMJ
JF - BMJ
IS - 7545
ER -