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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
393 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The World Health Organization recently rated America thirty-seventh in health outcomes, on par with Serbia. Tackling head-on the three major myths of American medicine, Dr. Weil shows how medical schools fail to give future doctors the education they need to care for patients, how insurance companies have destroyed our opportunity to get excellent care, and how pharmaceutical companies have come to rule our lives. The solution involves nothing less...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 CDs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses what has gone wrong with the American way of health to create the crisis in which the author feels the U.S. is embroiled and offers a solution that calls for a completely new culture of health and medicine.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Prescription drug use in America has increased tenfold in the past fifty years, and over-the counter drug use has risen just as dramatically. In addition to the dozens of medications we take to treat serious illnesses, we take drugs to help us sleep, to keep us awake, to stop our noses from running, our backs from aching, and our minds from racing. Name a symptom, there's a pill to suppress it. Modern drugs can be miraculously life saving, and many...
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