Less Medicine, More Health : 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care (Paperback)

from jaden

I am not a doctor, but I have been concerned at the growing number of doctors who run every test under the sun with questionable benefits. Welch provides an approachable, even humorous at times, look at the research and facts behind the tests. I also appreciated that he was upfront with his own m...

from snash

Perhaps I loved this book because it confirmed and gave substance to my sense of medical treatment - leave well enough alone unless there's an obvious problem and don't go looking for them; opt for tried and true and it's not about avoiding death but living life. He said this with studies and ane...

from ehousewright

I have learned a lot from my Dad-s progression through old age-so he's still teaching, although I don't think he knows it. And the points raised by Dr. Welch in this book resonate with me, in part because of him. He has CLL, went through monthly chemo treatments 10 or more years ago in his early ...

from Overdiagnosis

It describes 7 assumptions that drive too much medical care, with great clarity of writing and statistics and good clear imagery to explain eg why so much cancer screening fails WJ tests etc. opened my eyes to so much and has informed alot of teaching activities...I take one assumption and devise...

from DetailMuse

You might think that the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated -- and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value. Welch characterizes ...