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Worried sick [[electronic resource] ] : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / / Nortin M. Hadler



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Autore: Hadler Nortin M Visualizza persona
Titolo: Worried sick [[electronic resource] ] : a prescription for health in an overtreated America / / Nortin M. Hadler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
Disciplina: 362.10973
Soggetto topico: Medical care - United States
Medical policy - United States
Older people - Medical care - United States
Medical care - Utilization - United States
Health care reform - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: "A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-353) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: At 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
Titolo autorizzato: Worried sick  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8078-8617-3
0-8078-8271-2
1-4696-0223-7
0-8078-8618-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451570903321
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Serie: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.