Fixed-trust

I purchased Severed Trust with great expectations. Upon completion I can only say that the author is part of the problem. The book's advice and tone is pompous and arrogant at best. Misleading and misguided are also applicable adjectives.

The twin pillars Lundenberg advocates for MDs to regain the trust and confidence of the American public are limiting access to the health-care system and limiting organ transplants to one per patient.

Lundenberg fails to address the important health-care choices facing the public, including nutrition, diet, alternative treatments, and ever-increasing costs.

The book is written by an MD so close to the problems he cannot or will not honestly critique his profession.

Lundenberg's work is an insider's view of his own navel. It reads like a public relations piece rather than insightful examination of the issues and potential solutions in the public and private health-care arenas.

I'm giving the book four stars just because it urges medical reforms in general. From a strictly objective viewpoint, it earns three stars. Lundberg's book is in some ways very similar to mine, but he rarely talks about what doctors do most: administer and prescribe drugs. I'm sure he knows how to reform the health-care system better than I do, but he should have elaborated more on fixing the medical errors that kill 40,000-100,000 American patients every year. If you want to read about a bunch of red tape strangling the medical establishment, then buy this book...

American medicine was designed for corporate profit at the cost of 150,000 American lives from adverse drug reactions each year, and over 3.2 million hospital admissions from adverse drug reactions!Do you think it is time to re-evaluate the medical doctor's premise for the cause of illness?
The FDA is complicit when they allow drugs to be approved that have known serious side-effects that can cause liver and kidney toxicity and death. The emergency room and specific surgeries and some drugs are life saving and necessary, and really this is medicine's finest hour. Fortunately American's are finding out that most medical doctors never understand the actual causes of their patient's symptoms, and to make things worse, the drugs given to treat these symptoms actually worsen the patient's problem by affecting the G.I. tract ecology and the ability of the liver to detoxify toxins from the environment. So called "alternative treatment" in the US is actually "treatment of choice" for the rest of the world. Acupuncture, herbs, diet changes, nutritional supplements all allow the body to heal itself even with the exvironmental and emotional stress we are all exposed to.
This book is a very important addition to the volumes of information currently available about the changing perspectives on the American healthcare system.
Corporate profit will always be at the core of our Earth's problems, because drug companies and oil companies are not concerned with health or the environment. Medicine is a religion, not a science as is claimed, and as more American's are beginning to figure this out, our approach to illness will change!
Read this book and get a lesson from a man that understands!