Money Driven Medicine-

Tests and Treatments That Don't Work

About the Author

Since leaving the clinical practice of internal medicine in 1998, I have divided my time between researching and writing about medical topics and working on environmental issues. I am the president of Long Beach Organic a local community gardening and environmental education nonprofit organization in Long Beach, CA.

For the previous 17 years, I practiced and taught internal medicine at the LA County + USC Medical Center, directing the Cancer and AIDS Pain Service for 9 of those years. While practicing, my research concerned the optimal use of morphine and other opioid pain medications for patients with cancer and AIDS.

My first book, Euthanasia Is Not The Answer—A Hospice Physician’s View, grew out of my experiences caring for more than 2,000 terminally ill cancer and AIDS patients.

 
 
My second book, The Right Medicine—How To Make Health Care Work Today, began my interest in health care reform. 
More recently, I have researched and reviewed the evidence-basis (or lack of it) of high tech expensive treatments of medical illnesses.
My study of the nutritional and lifestyle statistical database of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial has shown the relationship of diet and lifestyle with obesity, hypertension, the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and dyslipidemia (see Chapter 8).
My study of medicine and experiences over 30 years with patient care have affected my own lifestyle practices. I eat a vegan diet, bike about 75 miles per week, run about 15 miles per week with friends, do 30 minutes of hatha yoga exercises per day, and meditate for 30 minutes daily.
 
 

 



About Dr. Cundiff