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200 10$aWorried sick$b[electronic resource] $ea prescription for health in an overtreated America /$fNortin M. Hadler
210   $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (392 p.)
225 1 $aH. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
300   $a"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-353) and index.
327   $aThe 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.
330   $aAt a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated, Nortin Hadler urges that before we commit to paying for whatever pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment tell us we need, American consumers need to adopt an attitude of skepticism and arm themselves with enough information to make some of their own decisions about what care is truly necessary. Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson regarding the uses and abuses of a particular type of treatment, such as mammography, colorectal screening, statin drugs, or coronary stents. By learning to 
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