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Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life," as if both are commodities. Hadler offers a doctor's perspective on the medical literature as well as his long clinical experience to help readers assess their health-care options and make informed medical choices in the last decades of life.
About the author
Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., M.A.C.P., M.A.C.R., F.A.C.O.E.M., is emeritus professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attending rheumatologist at UNC Hospitals. His books include
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America,
Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society, and
The Citizen Patient: Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System.
Summary
Examines health-care choices offered to aging Americans and argues that too often the choices serve to profit the provider rather than benefit the recipient, leading to the medicalization of everyday ailments and blatant overtreatment. Rethinking Aging arms readers with evidence-based insights that facilitate health-promoting decision making.
