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The Complete Guide to Dental Health: How to Avoid Being Overcharged and Overtreated

1 review
Jay W. Friedman

St Martins Pr, 1991

good book!
this is a very useful book. i bought both the columbia guide and this one, but this is really better. The columbia is too superficial. This one, which is a consumer report book, gives a lot of interesting tips on how to take care of your own teeth and pocket at the same time.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

23 reviews
Shannon Brownlee

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

Thoughtful and Thorough Study of the Health Care Crisis
Ever since my husband decided to go back to school to get a degree in the medical field (he hasn't quite decided in what yet), I have gotten more interested in reading about topics in that particular field. This book is one of the more fascinating reading and perhaps one of the most disturbing reading. However, I will have to admit a lot of the material in this book is already familiar. There are ...

Complete Guide to Dental Health: How to Maintain Your Dental Health and Avoid Being Overcharged and ...

2 reviews
Jay W. Friedman

1st Books Library, 2002

Buy this book before your next dentist appointment
This book is an excellent reference tool. Before you let a dentist talk you into expensive, maybe unnecessary dental work that may create even more problems down the road, sit down with this book. You'll find clear explanations of dental problems and procedures and this book can give you additional information and assurance when you suspect your dentist's recommendations may not always be in ...

Fevers often overtreated by physicians, parents: no reason to alternate antipyretics.(Children's Health): An ...
Miriam E. Tucker

International Medical News Group, 2004

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Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman)

6 reviews
MD, Nortin M. Hadler

The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

Essential !
It's a vicious circle: the medical technology exponential growth needs to be sold, health news (the great majority not exactly exempt) being issued all the time everywhere. At the core, our anguish concerning our frailty - and mortality: we want to live better, and longer. Our limits as human beings (who eventually become sick and die) are irrelevant. Elaborate laboratorial exams, expensive and ...