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Author: Nortin M. Hadler
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0773527958
Category: Medical

Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-care System

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. Download Last Well Person medical books for free.
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 Get Last Well Person our bestseller medical books.

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