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Title:
Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America
Author:
Hadler, Nortin M.
ISBN:
9780807886182

9781469602233

9780807882719
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (376 pages).
Series:
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
General Note:
"A Caravan book"--Title page verso.
Abstract:
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.
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