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How healthy is "healthy"? - UNC Press Blog
Yesterday's New York Times offered a fantastic point/counterpoint book review pairing Nortin Hadler's Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America with Nancy Snyderman's book Medical Myths That Can Kill You: And the 101 Truths That Will Save, Extend and Improve Your Life. According to Hadler, a professor of medicine at UNC and attending rheumatologist at UNC Hospitals, Americans are constantly being "medicalized," or told that they have something wrong with them that requires medical treatment. Enough! says Hadler. Necessary care should be available to all who need it, Hadler argues, but people...
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