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jessicaleza's review against another edition
4.0
Where alternative and complementary medicine has flourished, it's nearly always a sign of modern allopathic medicine's failure. (15)
Hippocrates cautioned physicians to "make no pretense to infallibility." (15)
... the ancient Greeks made no distinction between 'art' and 'science,' ... Hippocrates and his contemporaries believed the worlds of poetry, music, and medicine to be fundamentally intertwined. (16)
97% of all mammograms positive for breast cancer are false positives. If you get regular mammograms for 10 years, you have a 50% chance of getting a false positive over the course of that decade. (35-36)
As Aldous Huxley once said, "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead." (70)
Antibiotics for strep throat are likely killing far more people than they're saving. (116)
"Most men, when they have already heard one person expounding a subject, refuse to listen to those who discuss it after him, not realizing that it takes the same intelligence to learn what statements ate corrects as to make original discoveries. - Hippocrates (133)
... the experience of the mind deeply affects the human machine to which it is connected. The mind and the body are not separate. (148)
Every condition has its pill. Pills are the great sample of our advanced technology and brilliant science. (156)
This books has a great discussion of NNT or Number Needed to Treat, check out the chart on p. 193 it blew my mind.
Hippocrates cautioned physicians to "make no pretense to infallibility." (15)
... the ancient Greeks made no distinction between 'art' and 'science,' ... Hippocrates and his contemporaries believed the worlds of poetry, music, and medicine to be fundamentally intertwined. (16)
97% of all mammograms positive for breast cancer are false positives. If you get regular mammograms for 10 years, you have a 50% chance of getting a false positive over the course of that decade. (35-36)
As Aldous Huxley once said, "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead." (70)
Antibiotics for strep throat are likely killing far more people than they're saving. (116)
"Most men, when they have already heard one person expounding a subject, refuse to listen to those who discuss it after him, not realizing that it takes the same intelligence to learn what statements ate corrects as to make original discoveries. - Hippocrates (133)
... the experience of the mind deeply affects the human machine to which it is connected. The mind and the body are not separate. (148)
Every condition has its pill. Pills are the great sample of our advanced technology and brilliant science. (156)
This books has a great discussion of NNT or Number Needed to Treat, check out the chart on p. 193 it blew my mind.
jsc8675309's review against another edition
3.0
More interesting in premise than in delivery. Does indeed shed some light on some common misconceptions by laypeople about the medical profession and common medical practices.
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