Medical Wisdom Project

The Book

The Patient's Survival Guide

Seven Key Questions for Navigating the Medical Maze

Book Synopsis

The Patient’s Survival Guide contronts readers with two starkly different approaches to managing their medical care – contrasting approaches which often have their longevity.at stake. You can be a “ fully compliant” patient, diligently signing up for every test offered and chasing wellness by taking medications to prevent conditions your doctor says you might be on the verge of. Or you can be a cautious consumer of medicine, understanding that the medical system in the US is profoundly corrupted by profit maximization, resulting in rampant overdiagnosis, overtreatment and medical mistakes – and that more medicine is not always better. And believe it or not, your life outcome in the first instance will predominantly be much worse Again, you can search for the best doctors and make sure you get into the “best” hospitals (after all, you went to one of the the best colleges, right?) and ironically end up overtreated— shortening your time in life as a well person. As Dr Nortin Hadler is quoted in the book—“Type II malpractice is the art of doing something to you very well that you didn’t need in the first place!” Or you can take the time to read the book and learn seven principles for evaluating proposed tests, procedures, medications, and other medical care. You’ll find them in the Patient’s Survival Guide along with stories of people like you who learned that smart is not the same as wise.

In a country where longevity is declining, where medicine is the largest and by far the most profitable industry, and where overdiagnosis, overtreatment and medical mistakes have become the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, you have a choice to make. Yes, that’s right, third leading cause of death, quietly recognized by mainstream medical heroes quoted and listed in the book. And the choice is this—you can slide along, hapless, in a system where you don’t understand what the real game is – like your cat in a library— or you can learn how to protect yourself. That’s your choice.

In The Patient’s Survival Guide you can learn what are the burgeoning multi-billion dollar overtreatment industries heavily promoted everywhere, sometimes with your tax dollars, which save some lives to be sure but harm many more. You’ll learn about stents, a-fib, thyroid nodules, your carotid arteries, immunosuppressant drugs all over TV, statins, cholesterol and the flawed 1977 study. You’ll learn how medical associations lower the bar in defining disease, making millions more eligible for long term drugs for conditions like “elevated” blood pressure and “borderline” Type II diabetes.

On the book’s companion website, Medically Wise, where “patients think like customers,” there is access to an even wider wealth of information on a lifestyle of medical wisdom, being a person who is not swept along with the tide of clever misinformation. There are Patient Reports®, weekly updates, references and a subscription newsletter.

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