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Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine 50 reviews
John Abramson
Harper Perennial, 2005
From a pharmacist
+ Glad I ordered this book
+ Overdo$ed Is Right
+ Simply a must read
+ Sorting out medical knowledge from advertising
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Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients27 reviews
Ray Moynihan, Alan Cassels
Nation Books, 2005
WAKE UP AMERICA!
+ the pharmascams accelerate
+ Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel Exposed
+ Must read before popping another pill.
+ A must read
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The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease42 reviews
Uffe Ravnskov
NewTrends Publishing, Inc., 2000
Cholesterol -the hidden truths
+ Narrow thesis, well researched and well proven
+ No Longer Being Published
This is an amazing book.Dr Ravsnkov exposes many flaws in the research that has been done to support the belief that high cholesterol causes heart disease. A very comprehensive approach that enables us to examine the research behind the supposed cholesterol-heart link.In doing this it also acts as ...
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The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It 26 reviews
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
John Blake, 2007
One more blow against an entrenched myth
+ life-saving
+ A lucky find.....
As an internist/epidemiologist I was thrilled by this well written book (as good as Gary Taube's, and much more fun to read). I hope to be around when the pillars collapse around the fifty year old specious theory of cholesterol's role in CVD.However,like the erroneous theories of gastric ulcer ...
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What Your Doctor Won't (or Can't) Tell You: The Failures of American Medicine -- and How to Avoid Becoming a ...4 reviews
Evan Levine
Berkley Trade, 2005
Extraordinarily Honest
+ For the cost of my co-pay I saved thousands!
+ a must read before entering your doctor's office
When Dr Levine describes his book as "honest," it is redundant. His honesty, knowledge and his concern for the well-being of patients virtuallly leaps from the page.
He packs and enomous amount of little known information and a wealth of practical, life-saving suggestions about surviving a ...
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The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox 17 reviews
Peter R. Breggin
Da Capo Press, 2001
Facts everybody must know
+ Good book.
Dr. Peter R. Breggin's work is excellent. Drugs are KILLING many people before their "natural" time to die has come. Breggin can help persons to stop killing themselves with those horrible medications. Read the book and get better without drugs.
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Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health3 reviews
Ivan Illich
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000
Another brilliant, well-written book by Illich!
+ medicine can be toxic in excess
+ Ivan Illich and Modern Medicine
In this book, much like Deschooling Society, Illich attacks the issue from all sides. He consistenly provides an excellent argument with examples, statistics, and well-done research. Though this book is not quite as fast-paced as Deschooling Society, it is equally engaging. Illich not only ...
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Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs 14 reviews
Stephen Fried
Bantam, 1999
Required reading for any empowered patient
+ This story also happened to me
+ A Great Expose of Legal Drugs and the FDA
+ An Important Issue Gets Excellent Reporting
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Should I Be Tested for Cancer?: Maybe Not and Here's Why17 reviews
H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H.
University of California Press, 2006
Buy this today!
+ A Real Eye Opener!
+ Cancer screening probably does more harm than good
+ A different idea about cancer testing
+ courageous and insightful
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The Secrets of Medical Decision Making: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine6 reviews
Oleg I. Reznik
Loving Healing Press, 2005
Informative. Always ask "why?"
+ Must Reading
+ "Primum Non Nocere"
+ Important, Enlightening, Instructive, an Eye Opener
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Malignant Medical Myths: Why MEdical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA each Year, and How to Protect ...10 reviews
Joel M Kauffman Phd
Infinity Publishing, 2006
Evidence based medicine at it's best!
+ a must-read book
+ Convincing expose of common medical myths
+ malignant medical myths
+ Buy One for your Physician
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Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-care System22 reviews
Nortin M. Hadler
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004
Great Book very informative.
+ What happens when your medical care is paid for by other peoples' money.
+ Physician Review of The Last Well Person
+ Ignore your doctor but take care of yourself.
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Honest Medicine: Shattering the Myths About Aging and Health Care
Donald J. Murphy
Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1996
"In a warmhearted, practical manner Murphy argues that most older people are overmedicated, overtested, harrassed, and made needlessly anxious about health problems. . . . Honest Medicine is a gentle geriatrician's reassuring book that combines common sense with information from the most recent clinical studies."--Modern Maturity.
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Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic10 reviews
J. Eric Oliver
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005
It's not the fat, it's the politics
+ Fascinating research, weak conclusion
+ Mostly right but
+ Fat Politics
+ Good book, that I didn't fully agree with
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The Cancer Industry, New Updated Edition7 reviews
Ralph W. Moss
Equinox Press, 1996
Thank you Ralph Moss
+ Dry but worth the read
+ Excellent Book Documenting the Business with Disease
+ BEWARE THE MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
+ Prepare To Be Less Trusting After Reading This Expose
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Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle2 reviews
Mic Fitzpatrick
Routledge, 2000
Healthcare as coercive social policy
+ Amajor contribution to our ideas of health and disease
In the preface to this remarkable book Dr. Fitzpatrick describes breaking into the house of an elderly couple during a bitterly cold February. The couple had succumbed to a combination of infection and hypothermia. While waiting for the ambulance, Fitzpatrick, a primary care physician working in a ...
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Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies10 reviews
Greg Critser
Mariner Books, 2007
Articulate and Insightful
+ Especially for those in a medical field
+ The Rx syndrome:
Here, as in his FAT LAND, Critser performs a public service in the best possible format. Major issues like the growth of the drug culture are usually presented with more technical detail than the non-specialist can stand or with lurid alarmism. Here Critser condenses huge amounts of data and first ...
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Prescription for Disaster5 reviews
Thomas Moore
Dell, 1999
Save Your Own Life - Listen To Thomas J Moore, Author
+ A potentially lifesaving book
+ Anyone who uses medicine must read this book
+ This is an important book !
+ Anyone over 30 should read this book for self preservation.
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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection359 reviews
John E. Sarno
Warner Books, 1991
Learning to read might be the first emotional problem to overcome
+ Life changer
+ It will take more than just reading it but it DOES WORK!
I was sort of amazed that at least five reviewers here knocked Dr. Sarno's book because they couldn't find a method in the book to follow. For example:
"I read it, and it didn't change a thing. And there is no description of the actual method."
"Sarno's book helped me understand the cause of ...
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Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical ...53 reviews
Peter Breggin
St. Martin's Griffin, 1994
Global Drug Abuse!
+ vital counterbalance
+ ECT AS AN INSTRUMENT OF REPRESSION
+ tOXIC pSYCHIATRY
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