Nortin Hadler's Healthcare Trilogy, Omnibus E-book

This three-volume set is a collection of Nortin Hadlers definitive works on the state of healthcare in America today. The set includes:Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America, Hadlers best-seller that shows consumers how to distinguish good medical advice from persuasive medical marketing, make better decisions about their personal health, and use that wisdom to inform their perspectives on health-policy issues. This Omnibus includes the new preface by the author and a new foreword by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer;Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society, takes the Hadlerian approach to backaches and the backache treatment industry, arguing that regional back pain is overly medicalized by doctors, surgeons, and alternative therapists and that the design of workers' compensation, disability insurance, and other health schemes actually thwarts getting well; andRethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society, in which Hadler offers a doctors perspective on the medical literature as well as his long clinical experience to help readers assess their health-care options and make informed medical choices in the last decades of life.This invaluable trilogy is a must have for anyone interested in navigating the complex issues surrounding their healthcare, and improving their well-being as they age.