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Last Well Person

How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System

By: Nortin M. Hadler

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Last Well Person

How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System

By: Nortin M. Hadler

Hadler systematically builds the case that many medical interventions are hazardous to our health. Especially insidious is the misuse of longevity statistics in turning the difficulties experienced through a natural course of life, such as aging and osteoporosis, into illnesses. He argues that unfounded assertions and flagrant marketing have led to the medicalization of everyday life and he offers practical solutions on such topics as aging, obesity, adult onset diabetes, and back problems. In The Last Well Person Hadler addresses the tough questions about our health care, cutting through the medical white noise.

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0773572252

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Worried Sick

A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

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Worried Sick

A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson on the uses and abuses of common offerings, from screening tests to medical and surgical interventions. By learning to distinguish good medical advice from persuasive medical marketing, consumers can make better decisions about their personal health care and use that wisdom to inform their perspectives on health-policy issues.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807882712

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9780807882719

Last Well Person

How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System

By: Nortin M. Hadler

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Last Well Person

How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System

By: Nortin M. Hadler

Annotation This book is a controversial skewering of how doctors and the medical industry turn healthy people into patients.

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0773527958

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9780773527959

Stabbed in the Back

Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

By: Nortin M. Hadler

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Stabbed in the Back

Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

By: Nortin M. Hadler

For more than three decades, Dr. Hadler has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. The author argues that regional back pain is overly medicalized by doctors and that the design of worker's compensation actually thwarts getting well.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807833487

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Stabbed in the Back

Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

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Stabbed in the Back

Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

Nortin M. Hadler knows backaches. For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, he has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. Hadler terms the low back pain that everyone suffers at one time or another "regional back pain." In this book, he addresses the history and treatment of the ailment with the healthy skepticism that has become his trademark, taking the "Hadlerian" approach to backaches and the backache treatment industry in order to separate the helpful from the hype. Basing his critique on an analysis of the most current medical literature as well as his clinical experience, Hadler argues that regional back pain is overly medicalized by doctors, surgeons, and alternative therapists who purvey various treatment regimens. Furthermore, he observes, the design of workers' compensation, disability insurance, and other "health" schemes actually thwarts getting well. For the past half century, says Hadler, back pain and back pain-related disability have exacted a huge toll, in terms of pain, suffering, and financial cost. Stabbed in the Back addresses this issue at multiple levels: as a human predicament, a profound social problem, a medical question, and a vexing public policy challenge. Ultimately, Hadler's insights illustrate how the state of the science can and should inform the art and practice of medicine as well as public policy. Stabbed in the Back will arm any reader with the insights necessary to make informed decisions when confronting the next episode of low back pain.

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0807898546

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Rethinking Aging

Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

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Rethinking Aging

Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life," as if both are commodities. In Rethinking Aging, Nortin M. Hadler examines health-care choices offered to aging Americans and argues that too often the choices serve to profit the provider rather than benefit the recipient, leading to the medicalization of everyday ailments and blatant overtreatment. Rethinking Aging forewarns and arms readers with evidence-based insights that facilitate health-promoting decision making. Over the past decades, Hadler has established himself as a leading voice among those who approach the menu of health-care choices with informed skepticism. Only the rigorous demonstration of efficacy is adequate reassurance of a treatment's value, he argues; if it cannot be shown that a particular treatment will benefit the patient, one should proceed with caution. In Rethinking Aging, Hadler offers a doctor's 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. The challenges of aging and dying, he eloquently assures us, can be faced with sophistication, confidence, and grace.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807869236

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9780807869239

Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders

By: Nortin M. Hadler

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Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders

By: Nortin M. Hadler

This standard-setting book is known for its practical approach to the assessment, management, and counseling of patients with regional musculoskeletal disorders resulting in occupational incapacity. The approach is supported by a display of the relevant science and the author’s philosophy in approaching uncertainties and discrepancies. The Third Edition offers discussions of the current approach to the diagnosis and management of fibromyalgia and its sister functional somatic syndromes. Recent scientific studies explore the treatment of regional musculoskeletal disorders when such a sufferer feels compelled to seek care from a physician, surgeon or "alternative" provider. Dr. Hadler has pioneered an understanding of the interfaces between statutory recourse for disabling regional musculoskeletal disorders and the patient and physician. Witty and persuasive, Hadler’s text is grounded in sound, scientific principles and has been recommended by ACOEM, JAMA, JBJS, and others.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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0781749220

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9780781749220

Promoting Worker Health

A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.,Stephen P. Carter

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Promoting Worker Health

A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.,Stephen P. Carter

In this extended essay, Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter introduce a new approach to reforming the American health-care system--a plan they call the Universal Workers' Compensation Model (UWCM). Drawing on Hadler's expertise as a physician and Carter's as an attorney, the two have conceived the UWCM as a state-level alternative that would supersede current solutions debated at the national level. They begin by summarizing the history and present complexity and irrationality of America's health-insurance system. They then lay out the key concepts underlying the UWCM regime and the practical policy steps necessary to enact it. At the heart of the UWCM is a broader understanding of what constitutes worker's health, one grounded in scientific research and cognizant of the wide range of physical and mental illnesses that can afflict workers. The UWCM stipulates a single policy providing rational and reasoned recourse for universal risks: illness, injury, disability, and death. Presenting their ideas with precision in this 34-page pamphlet, Hadler and Carter intend to spark discussion among health-care providers, insurers, legislators, and everyday citizens about how we might move beyond the limits of the current debate toward new, truly effective solutions.

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1469650975

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Worried Sick

Paperback Edition — A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America

By: Nortin M. Hadler

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Paperback Edition — A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America

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Worried Sick

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0807872334

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The Citizen Patient

Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

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Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like. Central to this vision is a shared understanding of the primacy of the relationship between doctor and patient. Hadler shows us that a new approach is necessary if we hope to improve the health of the populace. Rational health care, he argues, is far less expensive than the irrationality of the status quo. Taking a critical view of how medical treatment, health-care finance, and attitudes about health, medicine, and disease play out in broad social and political settings, Hadler applies his wealth of experience and insight to these pressing issues, answering important questions for Citizen Patients and policy makers alike.

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1469607050

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By the Bedside of the Patient

Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Physician

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

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By the Bedside of the Patient

Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Physician

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

In By the Bedside of the Patient, Nortin Hadler places current efforts to reform medical education--from the undergraduate level through residency programs and on to continuing medical education--in historical context. In doing so, he traces the evolution of medical school curricula, residency and fellowship programs, and the clinical practices they promoted. Hadler examines crucial junctures in history to locate the seeds for reform. Some believe that medical education and training should highlight literature, ethics, and culture, while others emphasize science and efficiency to abbreviate the time from entry to licensure. Neither of these approaches, Hadler argues, maintains or improves patient care, which should be at the core of medical education and practice. Hadler contends that most reform attempted thus far constitutes, at best, little more than a reshuffling of the basic curriculum and, at worst, an augmenting of medicine's predilection to measure, grade, and record. Examining generational changes in medical education, Hadler mines sixty years of training and practice to identify mistaken approaches and best practices. Ultimately, in the contemporary era of managed care, Hadler argues for a clinical practice that draws on the best available scientific knowledge, transmits the wisdom of experienced clinicians, reforges an empathetic relationship between physician and patient, and treats each patient as an individual--all centered on restoring the mandate to care.

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By the Bedside of the Patient

Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Physician

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

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Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Physician

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The Citizen Patient

Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

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Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System

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Rethinking Aging

Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

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Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society

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Promoting Worker Health

A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.,Stephen P. Carter

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A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century

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Stabbed in the Back

Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

By: Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.

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Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

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Last Well Person

Last Well Person

Worried Sick

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Last Well Person

Last Well Person

Stabbed in the Back

Stabbed in the Back

Stabbed in the Back

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Rethinking Aging

Rethinking Aging

Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders

Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders

Promoting Worker Health

Promoting Worker Health

Worried Sick

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The Citizen Patient

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By the Bedside of the Patient

By the Bedside of the Patient

By the Bedside of the Patient

By the Bedside of the Patient

The Citizen Patient

The Citizen Patient

Rethinking Aging

Rethinking Aging

Promoting Worker Health

Promoting Worker Health

Stabbed in the Back

Stabbed in the Back

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