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Summary: Required reading for every person in health care
Review: I've waited quite a long time for this book to be published. The author is to be congratulated for his courage to show what`s really going on in the health care industry.
A common error when it comes to the media is that they rely on press releases when reporting about scientific findings. This way information unfortunately gets distorted beyond recognition.
Doctor Hadler did the right thing: he used the original data and conducted an independent analysis. This way the whole truth comes to light.
You don`t have to be a statistician to understand the simple difference between relative and absolute risk reduction - that`s actually quite simple to explain. The question for you - the patient (or better yet the well person) is: is it worth it?
And as the recent scandal over Vioxx showed the answer is (mostly) no.
By the way: Doctor Hadler shows that the evidence that Vioxx is unsafe was available in 2000 already; a recent study in the Lancet came to the same conclusion.
The author covers topics like breast cancer, colon cancer, muskuloskeletal disorders and many more. Illnesses that are literally worth billions of your dollars. If you want this to stop read this book and stay well; if you want to be medicalized to death - don`t read it.
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Summary: Read it and stay healthy
Review: I've waited quite a long time for this book to be published. The author is to be congratulated for his courage to show what`s really going on in the health care industry.A common error when it comes to the media is that they rely on press releases when reporting about scientific findings. This way information unfortunately gets distorted beyond recognition.
Doctor Hadler did the right thing: he used the original data and conducted an independent analysis. This way the whole truth comes to light. You don`t have to be a statistician to understand the simple difference between relative and absolute risk reduction - that`s actually quite simple to explain. The question for you - the patient (or better yet the well person) is: is it worth it?
And as the recent scandal over Vioxx showed the answer is (mostly) no.
By the way: Doctor Hadler shows that the evidence that Vioxx is unsafe was available in 2000 already; a recent study in the Lancet came to the same conclusion. The author covers topics like breast cancer, colon cancer, muskuloskeletal disorders and many more. Illnesses that are literally worth billions of your dollars. If you want this to stop read this book and stay well; if you want to be medicalized to death - don`t read it.
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