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Why Our Health Matters

A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future

Audiobook
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

Following up his five #1 New York Times bestsellers, Dr. Andrew Weil draws upon thirty years of medical experience to speak to us about our health care, offering a clear picture of what really went wrong, a passionate vision of how we can make it right, and invaluable advice to the millions of Americans facing medical dilemmas today.

Why Our Health Matters shows what has gone wrong with the American way of health to create the crisis in which our country is embroiled. Dr. Weil identifies the root of the problem, showing how medical schools fail to give future doctors the education they need to care for patients, how insurance companies have destroyed our opportunity to get excellent care, and how pharmaceutical companies have come to rule our lives. The solution involves nothing less than the creation of a completely new culture of health and medicine in this country, one that we can each start building today.

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    • Library Journal

      Starred review from January 15, 2010
      Five-time No. 1 "New York Times" best-selling author Weil (www.drweil.com), M.D., presents seemingly simple solutions for fixing America's ailing health-care system while simultaneously improving the health of all Americans. He addresses misconceptions about health and medicine, speaks to "toxic trends we must reverse," and prescribes for the medical community a proactive approach involving the promotion of a holistic, integrative approach to health and discouragement of the consumption of processed foods. Well read by the author, this engaging audio will appeal to Weil's many fans and those who appreciate the type of practical straight talk dispensed by the likes of Mehmet Oz and Sanjay Gupta.Nicole A. Cooke, Montclair State Univ. Lib., NJ

      Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Really, this is more of an opportunity than a burden, Dr. Andrew Weil says as he considers the health-care debate in Congress. Weil believes in national health care; what he wants listeners to consider is what goes into the plan. Weil's thesis, delivered in his own rough, occasionally monotonous tones, is that integrative medicine, aimed at prevention through healthy diet, exercise, and stress reduction, should be integral to any law. For the most part, that orientation turns the audiobook into a primer on integrative medicine that most listeners will find interesting. His proposals--from controlling insurance companies to banning the glamorization of smoking in movies--are likely to reinforce many listeners' existing views. J.A.S. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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