Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System
Author: Nortin M Hadler
Have you had it with celebrity gurus offering miracle cures? Are you sick of being treated like a diseased time bomb? Finally, someone has the courage to address the tough questions about our health care. In The Last Well Person Dr Nortin Hadler cuts through the medical white noise with his trademark tough love: Heart bypass surgery: Usually a waste of money, time, and energy, Treatment for prostate cancer: Does more harm than good, Testing for breast cancer: Not always effective, Chronic pain: See your therapist, not your pharmacist.
Dr Hadler skewers a self-serving medical industry and shows that constant monitoring and unnecessary intervention turn healthy people into patients. Sick with worry, we are a culture panicked over unfounded illnesses. The Last Well Person offers practical solutions on to, cs including aging, obesity, diabetes, and back problems. If you're not afraid of seeing conventional wisdom overturned by hard facts, if you're ready to educate yourself and trust your own judgment, you are ready for Dr Hadler.
About the Author:
Nortin M. Hadler has lectured widely in North America and abroad and testified before the U.S. Congress and U.S. Social Security Board
Table of Contents:
| Pt. 1 | The Methuselah complex | 9 |
| 1 | Interventional cardiology and kindred delusions | 17 |
| 2 | Fats, fads, and fate | 35 |
| 3 | You and your colon | 65 |
| 4 | Breast cancer and how the women's movement got it wrong | 77 |
| 5 | Prostate envy | 92 |
| Pt. 2 | Worried sick | 101 |
| 6 | Musculoskeletal predicaments | 107 |
| 7 | Medicalization of the "worried well" | 128 |
| 8 | Turning aging into a disease | 146 |
| 9 | Health hazards in the hateful job | 166 |
| 10 | Why are alternative and complementary therapies thriving? | 177 |
| Epilogue : a ripe old age | 201 |
Better Vision Now: Improve Your Sight with the Renowned Bates Method
Author: Clara A Hackett
Thinking about laser eye surgery? Tired of glasses and contacts? Take a look at these easy-to-follow, step-by-step methods for improving poor eyesight. Hackett's innovative self-help guide includes a basic 12-week program of simple routines and drills that are recommended for correcting nearsightedness, farsightedness, crossed eyes, and other serious eye problems. 37 illustrations.
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