Why our health matters : a vision of medicine that can transform our future / Andrew Weil.

By: Weil, Andrew Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Hudson Street Press, c2009. Description: vi, 264 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781594630668 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1594630666 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Health care reform -- United States | Medical education -- United States | Health insurance | Pharmaceutical industryLOC classification: RA395.A3 | 443 2009NLM classification: WA 540 AA1

Contents:

You have a right to good health care -- Exposing the myths of American health care -- Moving to the future while learning from the past -- Reversing the toxic trends -- Doctors of the future -- Medicine of the future -- The new American health care -- Disease prevention : the sustainable solution -- Health promotion : the critical component -- What the future will look like.

Summary: The World Health Organization recently rated America thirty-seventh in health outcomes, on par with Serbia. Tackling head-on the three major myths of American medicine, Dr. Weil shows how medical schools fail to give future doctors the education they need to care for patients, how insurance companies have destroyed our opportunity to get excellent care, and how pharmaceutical companies have come to rule our lives. The solution involves nothing less than the creation of a completely new culture of health and medicine in this country.--From publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Speedway Adult Area	Non-fiction	362.1042 WEI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		35550431045668

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The World Health Organization recently rated America thirty-seventh in health outcomes, on par with Serbia. Tackling head-on the three major myths of American medicine, Dr. Weil shows how medical schools fail to give future doctors the education they need to care for patients, how insurance companies have destroyed our opportunity to get excellent care, and how pharmaceutical companies have come to rule our lives. The solution involves nothing less than the creation of a completely new culture of health and medicine in this country.--From publisher description.