How medicine works and when it doesn't : learning who to trust to get and stay healthy
Record details
- ISBN: 9781538723623
- ISBN: 1538723603
- ISBN: 9781538723609
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Physical Description:
xx, 277 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2023.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Our most human failing: Why the most devastating public health crisis is motivated reasoning -- Changing our minds: Why medical advice feels so fickle, and why that is actually a good thing -- The temptation of the "One simple thing": Why we gravitate to fad diets, quick fixes, and empty promises -- The quest for causality: Why medical researchers are obsessed with understanding the effects of A on B -- How coin flips changed medicine forever: Why the randomized trial is the pinnacle of medical knowledge generation -- Good medicine may not be good for you: Why the best choice for a patient may not be the best choice for all patients -- No such thing as incurable: Why breakthroughs are rare but inevitable -- Pharma: Why greedy corporations are still necessary, and how we can change them -- Too good to be true: How fraud destroys trust, and how to recognize it when it happens -- Healing the system: How we can work together to reshape healthcare -- Moving together: How doctors and patients must change to trust one another again. |
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Subject: | Physician and patient United States Popular works Medical care United States Popular works MEDICAL / General Medical care Physician and patient United States |
Genre: | Self-help publications. Informational works. Popular works. |
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Homer Public Library | 610.69 WIL (Text) | 000169468 | Nonfiction | Available | - |