In his new book, THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF HEALTHCARE: Why Bad Things Happen to Healthy Patients and How to Avoid Them,  Dr. Kussin discusses what happens to perfectly healthy people who are the unwitting victims of medical care’s three-ring circus: over-selling, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment that results in unintended consequences. The slippery slope of healthcare is “a cascade of escalating misfortunes produced by more tests with incrementally greater risk, expense, and fewer benefits.”

About Dr. Kussin

Dr. Steven Z. Kussin grew up in the New York public school system. He attended college at Columbia University and medical school at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Subsequently, he completed his post-graduate training at Einstein. His hospital experience includes Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx.

His certifications include: Certified in Internal Medicine and attended Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for fellowship in Gastroenterology. Following certification in Gastroenterology, Dr. Kussin served in Manhattan as an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Columbia.

Throughout his teaching career, his articles were published in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Journal of Surgical Oncology, and Digestive Diseases and Sciences.

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