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In What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You: The Real Reasons You Don't Feel Good and What YOU Can Do About It, Dr. Sherer provides readers with verifiable information about current medicine, healthcare and relevant public policy so they can make their own best judgments as to whether a change in their behavior will, if they are inclined, effect a positive change in your life. He strips away the veneer of political correctness when it comes to health and provides the basic truths behind the implications of the daily decisions we make that affect out health. These decisions, mostly based in how we approach food, physical activity, our mental and emotional states, our interactions with others and our approach to accessing healthcare, have profound effects on our physical, mental and emotional states. Rather than being a book on how to eat, how to exercise, how to shop for a health plan and so on, this work strives only to inform. Because with information comes power. And with power, there is the potential for positive change.

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Table of Contents to What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You: The Real Reasons You Don't Feel Good and What YOU Can Do About It by Doctor David Sherer

PREFACE..........................................xi

INTRODUCTION A Perfect Storm....................................xiii

CHAPTER 1 The 800-Pound American in the Room The Obesity Threat...................................1

CHAPTER 2 Medication Nation A Flawed Solution..................................17

CHAPTER 3 Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? The Potential Dangers of Medical Interventions.............35

CHAPTER 4 Pain The Universal Scourge................................67

CHAPTER 5 Pressing Issues Public Policy, Patient Responsibility, Health Trends, and the Law...........................81

CHAPTER 6 Behind the Mask Who Are Doctors, Really?..........................121

CHAPTER 7 First, Do No Harm Medical Misadventures and Malpractice.................131

CHAPTER 8 Time's Up A Look at How We Die..............................141

CHAPTER 9 "Say Again?" The Secret Language of Doctors........................149

CHAPTER 10 Mini-Med School, Part 1 A Primer of Form and Function.......................165

CHAPTER 11 Mini-Med School, Part 2 A Primer of the Biology of Disease......................181

CHAPTER 12 What Is the Worst and Best That's Happened in Medicine and Healthcare Since I Graduated Medical School........................201

Afterword.......................................233

Index...........................................239