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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Popular Works Popular works |
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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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"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...


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