Why Our Health Matters
A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future
by Andrew Weil
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The Three Major Myths of American Health
Myth #1: Because America has the most expensive health care in the world, it must be the best.
Reality: The World Health Organization recently rated America 37th in health outcomes, on a par with Serbia.
Myth #2: American technology makes it possible for us to achieve medical excellence.
Reality: We have powerful technology, but we misuse it and overuse it, driving up costs and worsening health outcomes.
Myth #3: Our medical schools and scientific facilities produce the world's finest physicians and conduct the most productive research.
Reality: Our medical and scientific infrastructure is extensive, but is controlled by an almost fundamentalist orthodoxy that limits our ability to understand and promote health and prevent disease. Medical education today omits whole subject areas of great relevance to those ends, including nutrition, mind/body interactions, and environmental effects on health. We train researchers to think simplistically and focus narrowly on single interventions directed at the physical body, especially pharmaceutical drugs. (The manufacturers of those drugs strongly influence researchers, practitioners, and the journals that report research results.
-From the book, Why Our Health Matters
Why Our Health Matters
Costs of medical care are a leading cause of personal bankruptcy today. In Why Our Health Matters, Andrew Weil, M.D., identifies the root of the problem and provides a solution that will make healthcare affordable, putting each of us on the road to optimum health.
Dr. Weil states that we have a right to good healthcare that’s effective, accessible and affordable. Our national health is far from the best in the world, even though we spend more money on it than any other country. His solution involves the creation of a completely new culture of health and medicine, one that we can each start building today.
Why Our Health Matters shows you what you can do to begin to make our country—and you—healthier than ever before.
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Penguin Group (Usa) ( September 08, 2009 )
Item #: 04-1635
ISBN: 9781594630668
Product Dimensions: 6.0 x 9.0 x 0.65 inches
Product Weight: 13.0 ounces
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