Rethinking Aging
Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society
By Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.
272 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 figs., 9 tables, notes, index
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8078-3506-7
Published: September 2011 -
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5210-8
Published: February 2019 -
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Published: September 2011 -
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Published: September 2011
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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.
About the Author
Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., M.A.C.P., M.A.C.R., F.A.C.O.E.M., is emeritus professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attending rheumatologist at UNC Hospitals. His most recent books are Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America and Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society.
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