Overkill When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far

Is lowering your temperature when you have a fever helpful? Do you really need to finish every course of antibiotics? Or could some of the treatments you think are healing you actually be harming you? Medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades. But while we have learned a lot, we still rely on medical interventions that are vastly out of date and can adversely affect our health. In this game-changing book, infectious-disease expert and Rotavirus vaccine inventor Dr Offit highlights fifteen common medical interventions still recommended and practised by medical professionals, despite clear evidence that they are harmful - including the treatment of acid reflux in babies and the reliance on heart stents and knee surgery. By presenting medical alternatives, Overkill gives patients invaluable information to help them ask their doctors better questions and to advocate for their own health.

ISBN:	9781913348151
Publisher:	Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Imprint:	Scribe UK
Published date:	03 Nov 2020
DEWEY:	610
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	288
Weight:	364g
Height:	153mm
Width:	233mm
Spine width:	24mm

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