Full name: Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America

Author: Nortin M. MD Hadler Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780807872338 0807872334

Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson on the uses and abuses of common offerings, from screening tests to medical and surgical interventions. By learning to distinguish good medical advice from persuasive medical marketing, consumers can make better decisions about their personal health care and use that wisdom to inform their perspectives on health-policy issues. Similar books: Less Medicine, More Health by Gilbert Welch Overdiagnosed by H. Gilbert Welch Unaccountable by Marty Makary Overtreated by Shannon Brownlee Overdosed America by John Abramson The Last Well Person by Nortin M. Hadler Your Medical Mind by Jerome Groopman When Doctors Don't Listen by Leana Wen How We Do Harm by Otis Webb Brawley