Cost-effective medicine vs. the medical-industrial complex

• Journal of Thoracic Disease 09/2014; 6(9):E203-E206. DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.09.01/
 Lawrence Grouse  International COPD Coalition

Correspondence to: Lawrence Grouse, MD, PhD. Executive Director of the International COPD Coalition. 

Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific Ave., Rm RR650, 

Box 356465, Seattle, Washington 98195-6465, USA. Email: lgrouse@uw.edu.

Abstract

In the fascinating non-fiction book Moneyball (and the movie produced therefrom) the story is told of a major league 

baseball general manager whose team (the Oakland Athletics) did not have the revenue to compete with other major 

league teams in hiring the expensive superstar players whose celebrity and superior abilities were thought to be 

necessary for a winning baseball team.

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