Worried Sick - A Prescription for Health in Overtreated America

Informationen zum Autor Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., M.A.C.P., M.A.C.R., F.A.C.O.E.M., is professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attending rheumatologist at UNC Hospitals. He is author of several books, including Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society and Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung At a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated! the author 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 health-care debate assumes that everyone requires massive amounts of expensive care to stay healthy.

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• Authors: Nortin M Hadler, Nortin M. Hadler, Nortin M. M. D. Hadler, Nortin M./ Brownlee Hadler, Nortin M. Hadler M. D., HADLER NORTIN M MD, Nortin M. Hadler M.d.
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2012
• EAN: 9780807872338
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-7233-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs L; H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General