Reports on the ineffectiveness of many drugs, with ratings of different brand-name products and suggestions for simple and inexpensive substitutes.

While powerful new superdrugs make headlines and physicians write out billions of prescriptions each year, our access to accurate, detailed medical information is increasingly denied by the healthcare establishment. Now Dr. Gideon Bosker offers a guide that gives the patient more control over the healing process. "Pills That Work, Pills That Don't" offers a gold mine of information: -- Which generic drugs are inefficient -- and how to get an HMO to pay for the better pills or nongeneric ones-- How to switch to medications that have been clinically proven to heal faster-- How to exchange more expensive medications for lower cost, more effective prescriptions-- Ways to build a safer drug regimen that eliminates toxic side effectsHere is the first authoritative guide to better health in the twenty-first century -- including a proven 12-Week Action Plan that will help patients and their physicians work together to produce sensible drug regimens that will do more with less.