Medicine Balls: Consultations with the World's Greatest TV Doctor by Phil Hammond |
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Based on the BBC2 series, this insider's view of medicine is far from comforting - consultants who regard long waiting lists as a power base and source of private income, thousands of doctors addicted to drugs or alcohol, doctors who indulge in gratuitous intimate examinations and those that botch operations they are insuffieciently skiled to perform. Fortunately Hammond aslo has some sensible advice on how to assass treatments on offer for a range of common conditions, as well as on food and dietry supplements; contraception, conception and childbirth, and complementary medicine. Nevertheless, this is a tract to demolish the quaint, trusting ragard in which the British hold their National Health Service. (Kirkus UK)
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How do you spot if your surgeon's a dud? Did you know that coffee-drinking lessens the risk of suicide? That amniocentesis is sometimes performed without ultrasound, putting unborn babies at risk? That one third of the 62 different sorts of artificial hip on the market have not been properly tested? That there are 15,000 practising doctors with alcohol or drug problems? That most cases of AIDS in babies are preventable? This tie-in book to the popular TV series examines health issues from a consumer's perspective, exposing the myths and the strange reluctance of the medical profession to pass on new findings to patients. Illustrated throughout with anecdotes and quotes from leading practitioners, and written in Phil Hammond's irreverent style, this is the health book that will ensure you'll never be bamboozled by the medical profession again.
Based on the BBC2 series, this insider's view of medicine is far from comforting - consultants who regard long waiting lists as a power base and source of private income, thousands of doctors addicted to drugs or alcohol, doctors who indulge in gratuitous intimate examinations and those that botch operations they are insuffieciently skiled to perform. Fortunately Hammond aslo has some sensible advice on how to assass treatments on offer for a range of common conditions, as well as on food and dietry supplements; contraception, conception and childbirth, and complementary medicine. Nevertheless, this is a tract to demolish the quaint, trusting ragard in which the British hold their National Health Service. (Kirkus UK)
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How do you spot if your surgeon's a dud? Did you know that coffee-drinking lessens the risk of suicide? That amniocentesis is sometimes performed without ultrasound, putting unborn babies at risk? That one third of the 62 different sorts of artificial hip on the market have not been properly tested? That there are 15,000 practising doctors with alcohol or drug problems? That most cases of AIDS in babies are preventable? This tie-in book to the popular TV series examines health issues from a consumer's perspective, exposing the myths and the strange reluctance of the medical profession to pass on new findings to patients. Illustrated throughout with anecdotes and quotes from leading practitioners, and written in Phil Hammond's irreverent style, this is the health book that will ensure you'll never be bamboozled by the medical profession again.
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