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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Popular Work |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Hadler, Nortin M. Worried sick. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007042147 (OCoLC)175055551 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nortin M Hadler |
ISBN: | 9780807886182 0807886181 9781469602233 1469602237 9780807882719 0807882712 |
OCLC Number: | 233573346 |
Notes: | "A Caravan book"--Title page verso |
Description: | 1 online resource (376 pages) |
Contents: | The Methuselah complex -- The heart of the matter -- Risky business : cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure -- You are not what you eat -- Gut check -- Breast cancer prevention : screening the evidence -- The beleaguered prostate -- Disease mongering -- Creakiness -- It's in your mind -- Aging is not a disease -- Working to death -- "Alternative" therapies are not "complementary" -- Assuring health, insuring disease. |
Series Title: | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series. |
Responsibility: | Nortin M. Hadler. |
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Abstract:
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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"Case by case, Hadler exposes the excesses, the unjustified costliness, and the ineffectiveness of the present medical scene. He presents a proposal for a health-care insurance system that will increase the health of the nation, provide only effective care, and reduce costs." - Clifton K. Meador, M.D., author of A Little Book of Doctors' Rules, Med School, and Symptoms of Unknown Origin" Read more...

