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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 362.10973 EAN: 9780807831878 ISBN: 0807831875 Label: The University of North Carolina Press Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 392 Publication Date: June 02, 2008 Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Studio: The University of North Carolina Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: At a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated, Nortin Hadler argues that an even more important issue is being overlooked. Although necessary health care should be available to all who need it, he says, the current health-care debate assumes that everyone requires massive amounts of expensive care to stay healthy. Hadler urges that before we commit to paying for whatever pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment tell us we need, American consumers need to adopt an attitude of skepticism and arm themselves with enough information to make some of their own decisions about what care is truly necessary. Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson regarding the uses and abuses of a particular type of treatment, such as mammography, colorectal screening, statin drugs, or coronary stents. For consumers and medical professionals interested in understanding the scientific basis for Hadler's arguments, each topical chapter has an accompanying source chapter in which Hadler discusses the medical literature and studies that inform his critique. According to Hadler, a major stumbling block to rational health-care policy in the United States is contention over the very concept of what constitutes good health. By learning to distinguish good medical advice from persuasive medical marketing, consumers can make better decisions about their personal health and use that wisdom to inform their perspectives on health-policy issues. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great book with a giant holeWhat a tragedy! This is a book everyone in America should read, but after covering the major killers and the major scams involved in treating them, the author goes on and on about relatively minor illnesses and waxes extensively, it doesn't matter that he's right, about the disease that is the Capitalist system of expendable workers,drug companies etc., and the age old struggle between labor, management and poverty that makes people sicker than anything else. I agree, but why in God's name ... Read More Rating:  - Essential !It's a vicious circle: the medical technology exponential growth needs to be sold, health news (the great majority not exactly exempt) being issued all the time everywhere. At the core, our anguish concerning our frailty - and mortality: we want to live better, and longer. Our limits as human beings (who eventually become sick and die) are irrelevant. Elaborate laboratorial exams, expensive and unproven procedures are so finding their indications (a lot of them even becoming almost "compulsory"). ... Read More Rating: - A MUST READ!If you want to save yourself from being labeled with a disease you don't have and take medications you don't need, then you must read this book. Worried Sick is a follow up to Dr. Hadler's The Last Well Person. It has updated research information and written for the public at large. In this book, Dr. Hadler examines many of the common diagnoses and treatments and questions their validity and scientific basis. He shows clearly that many of them are not founded based on science, and that treatments ... Read More 
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