This four-volume Omnibus E-Book is a collection of Nortin Hadler's
definitive works on the state of healthcare in America today. The
set includes:
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated
America, Hadler's best-seller that shows consumers how to
distinguish good medical advice from persuasive medical marketing,
make better decisions about their personal health, and use that
wisdom to inform their perspectives on health-policy issues. This
Omnibus includes the new preface by the author and a new foreword
by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer;
Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated
Society, takes the "Hadlerian" approach to backaches and the
backache treatment industry, arguing that regional back pain is
overly medicalized by doctors, surgeons, and alternative therapists
and that the design of workers' compensation, disability insurance,
and other "health" schemes actually thwarts getting well; and
Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated
Society, in which Hadler offers a doctor's perspective on the
medical literature as well as his long clinical experience to help
readers assess their health-care options and make informed medical
choices in the last decades of life.
And, in Dr. Hadler's newest,
The Citizen Patient: Reforming
Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System, he
urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the
existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful
reform might look like. Central to this vision is a shared
understanding of the primacy of the relationship between doctor and
patient. Hadler shows us that a new approach is necessary if we
hope to improve the health of the populace. Rational health care,
he argues, is far less expensive than the irrationality of the
status quo.
This invaluable set -- collected here for the first time in a
4-volume Omnibus E-Book, is a must have for anyone interested in
navigating the complex issues surrounding their healthcare, and
improving their well-being as they age.