Bøker av Nortin M. Hadler

Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society

In this essential guide, preeminent physician Hadler urges American healthcare consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like with a shared understanding of the primacy of the relationship between doctor and patient.

At a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated, the author argues that an even more important issue is being overlooked. Although necessary health care should be available to all who need it, he says, the health-care debate assumes that everyone requires massive amounts of expensive care to stay healthy.

Addresses the history and treatment of backache, taking the 'Hadlerian' approach to backaches and the backache treatment industry in order to separate the helpful from the hype. This title argues that regional back pain is overly medicalized by doctors, surgeons, and alternative therapists who purvey various treatment regimens.