This book helps in creating informed health-care consumers.At a time when access to health care in the United States is being widely debated, Nortin Hadler argues that an even more important issue is being overlooked. Although necessary health care should be available to all who need it, he says, the current health-care debate assumes that ...
Are we all diseased time bombs? In "The Last Well Person" Dr Nortin Hadler argues that unfounded assertions, massaged data, and flagrant marketing have led to the medicalization of everyday life. He systematically builds the case that constant medical monitoring and unnecessary intervention are hazards to our health, severely reducing our quality ...
This standard-setting book is known for its practical approach to the assessment, management, and counseling of patients with regional musculoskeletal disorders resulting in occupational incapacity. The approach is supported by a display of the relevant science and the author's philosophy in approaching uncertainties and discrepancies. The Third ...
"The Year Book of Rheumatology, Arthritis, and Musculoskeletal Disease" brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in rheumatology, arthritis, and musculoskeletal disease, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and ...
This two-volume work aims to respond to the needs of orthopaedists, surgeons, neurosurgeons and rehabilitation specialists for a comprehensive clinical reference on the overall management of adults with acquired and congenital diseases and disorders of the spine. More than 100 contributors provide an account of the epidemiology, clinical ...
This title presents the story of a common and contrived disease. Nortin Hadler knows backaches. For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, he has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. Dr. Hadler terms the low back pain that everyone suffers at one time or another 'regional back pain'. ...
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