Too Many Pills
How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
23 May 2022
Summary
The number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more) different pills to lower the blood pressure and sugar levels, statins, bone strengthening and cardio protective drugs. In TOO MANY PILLS, doctor and writer James Le Fanu examines how this progressive medicalisation of people’s lives now poses a major threat to their health and wellbeing, responsible for a hidden epidemic of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408709788 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408709783 |
| Author: | Dr James Le Fanu |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 23 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 24mm |
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James Le Fanu meticulously dissects the science, spin and unethical practices
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About The Author
Dr James Le Fanu
James Le Fanu has combined a career as a General Practitioner in South London with writing about medicine and science for the Sunday and Daily Telegraph. He has also contributed articles and reviews to The Times, Spectator, New Statesman, Literary Review, British Medical Journal and Journal of The Royal Society of Medicine. His much acclaimed ‘The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine’ won the Los Angeles Times book prize in 2001. His most recent book, ‘Why Us?’, was published jointly by HarperCollins in the UK and Random House in the US in 2009. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2014.
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