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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Hudson Street Press, c2009.Description: vi, 264 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781594630668 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1594630666 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA395.A3 443 2009
NLM 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 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.

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.

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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