Full name: The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System

Author: Nortin M. Hadler Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Health Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780773527959 9780773532540 0773527958 0773532544

Are we all diseased time bombs? In The Last Well Person Dr Nortin Hadler argues that unfounded assertions, massaged data, and flagrant marketing have led to the medicalization of everyday life. He systematically builds the case that constant medical monitoring and unnecessary intervention are hazards to our health, severely reducing our quality of life. Sick with worry, we are a culture panicked by many illnesses - cardio-vascular disease, obesity, adult onset diabetes, fatigue, and breast cancer. Especially insidious, contends Hadler, is the misuse of longevity statistics in turning the difficulties experienced through a natural course of life, such as aging, back pain, and osteoporosis, into illnesses. He shows that the medical profession's current notion that such predicaments can be avoided is fatuous and self-serving. And he argues that most heart bypass surgery, mammography, cholesterol screening, and treatment to prevent prostate cancer should be avoided. Similar books: Worried Sick by Nortin M. MD Hadler Less Medicine, More Health by Gilbert Welch The V Book by Elizabeth G. Stewart Lies My Doctor Told Me by Ken D. Berry The Starch Solution by John A. McDougall Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto Strong Curves by Bret Contreras Meditations from the Mat by R. Patrick Gates Super Immunity by Joel Fuhrman The New Atkins for a New You by Eric C. Westman Folks, This Ain't Normal by Joel Salatin Pilates Anatomy by Rael Isacowitz The Complete Medicinal Herbal by Penelope Ody The Subtle Body by Cyndi Dale Diet for a New America by John Robbins The Paleo Cure by Chris Kresser The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion by Pete Egoscue Daniels' Running Formula by Jack Daniels Essential Reiki by Diane Stein Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book by Susan M. Love