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The Last Well Person: How To Stay Well Despite The Health-Care System |
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This book, by Dr. Nortin Hadler, talks about how the current US healthcare system creates an artificial sense of illness in what used to be considered healthy people, and subjects millions of us to unnecessary surgeries and other treatments. The language is a bit dense and technical for someone not used to medical terms or research lingo, but the general points are clear. If used as a guide in determining best practices, this kind of thinking would stand to save individuals hundreds or thousands, and the USA BILLIONS of dollars yearly.
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Have not read this book but am following Cliffenstein's lead re 3-star as this is an important point. My daughter (now in LA), and I both think we notice ?? pursuit, preoccupation, ... ??? in parts of the population with ?? chasing assorted diagnoses and treatments?? This is a very personal matter, so I don't want to say for sure - but it 'seems' there is a more belief in what is promoted and advertised than may be warranted. When I first arrived here after so many years in Canada I was impressed with the radio advertising of 'newly discovered condition X' and 'newly discovered med or treatment Y' to 'fix' the problem. When this is mixed with the fairly frequent reference to the health care seeker as a 'consumer', I hear advertising brains whirring and clicking. ... ??? ... maybe something to think about. Before I went to Canada I worked 5 summers in a US general hospital and did not think of our culture at that time as so busy with diagnoses/treatment pursuit. I do agree, however, that medical understandings have also increased diagnoses and treatments - this is an 'up-side'. Still - maybe worth some thought. Thanks. (Meg) 
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