Title: Perfidy in High and Low Places
Product review: Laurie Garret's writing is bigger than life but sometimes just as flawed. This dynamic superwoman occasionaly outruns her facts (penicillin is NOT a sulfa drug) but she has produced a classic that ranks with Zinsser, DeKruif and Sinclair Lewis in understanding the obligation that governments have to preserving the public's health. Unfortunately, when the US Constitution and Bill of Rights were written health was up to God so the right to health was never recognized. Consequently public health has been left to the police powers of the state, and of whatever state is involved. Garett chronicles the failure of politicians to respond to their responsibilities and the lip of the precipice where we all stand. It is a wonderful book and a synoptic view of the failure of public responsibility and governmental bundling that puts us all in jeapordy.
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