| What Doctors Don't Tell You: The Truth About the Dangers of Modern Medicine |  | Author: Lynne McTaggart
Publisher: Thorsons
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Edition: New edition
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0007176279
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Publication Date: February 7, 2005
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New edition of this highly controversial and campaigning book that reveals the truth about the pills and procedures your doctor prescribes and offers proven alternatives for diagnosing, preventing and treating many illnesses. Includes updated information on all the most recent health issues -- vaccination, HRT, Viagra, IVF and more.
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 A cautionary tale of 21st century medicine June 16, 2010
Dr. H. A. Jones (Wales)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What Doctors Don't Tell You: The truth about the dangers of modern medicine, by Lynne McTaggart, Thorsons (HarperCollins), 1996, 400 ff.
A cautionary tale of 21st century medicine
By Howard Jones
Relevant Internet sites tell us that there are about 7000 deaths and well over one million people injured each year from medication errors in America. In Britain, with its much smaller population, there are thought to be about 40,000 errors annually in drug administration in British hospitals. Almost every pharmaceutical preparation is prescribed to control symptoms - it doesn't cure anything and most medications have side effects. These may be minor in relation to the illness - but not always. These statistics are alarming and make Lynne McTaggart's book highly relevant, even though it is now over a decade since publication. This does not detract from its impact, though it is heavily slanted towards the negative influences.
Many of the unwanted effects described by McTaggart do indeed occur, but fortunately not all of them to everyone and not always. The problem is that most patients feel they have no option but to trust the medical professionals and only find out too late that they were not given the full picture. So what this book does is tell you, if your health professional does not, some of the dangers and possibly unpleasant side-effects that can occur with drugs or medical procedures and it at least gives you a choice as to whether or not to proceed with the recommended procedure or medication.
Chapter 1, a mere 10 pages, gives the context for the book. Chapters 2 to 4 are about what is possibly over-diagnosis through technology - screening of various kinds. Chapters 5-7 deal respectively with the medical profession's preoccupation with cholesterol levels, vaccination and HRT. Then follow four chapters on treatment - by drugs, dentistry, cancer surgery and other procedures. The final chapter is an advocacy of naturopathic treatment, eating healthily and exercising regularly, and adopting positive mental attitudes as lines of first treatment rather than what is now known as allopathic medicine - a philosophy I support.
The strength of this book is that, like its title says, it gives you information that should be given you by your doctor or surgeon but too often isn't. My criticism is that, in its 400 pages, the book is unrelentingly negative and perhaps therefore over-cautionary. It's useful, but my overwhelming concerns are that patients without any other source of medical information may be put off accepting palliatives or even undergoing life-saving treatment and, if treatment is needed, we should not destroy faith in the medical profession quite so thoroughly. Pharmaceuticals and surgery have saved very many lives and brought relief from suffering to many others.
Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, UK.
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the other side of the coin March 29, 2010
Ms. Z. Cumberpatch (yorkshire)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is good to look at if you want to find out what's behind the information that is given to us by the medical profession. It is well worth while having a look if you are interested in a full picture of whatever ailment you had. I can recommend it - it helped me with my situation.
 The author lacks objectivity and provides misleading information November 27, 2009
A doctor
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
As a medical practitioner who has undertaken research, I found this book to be inaccurate and lacking objectivity in the way it reports scientific evidence. I felt a lot of the content was grossly misleading. I would not recomend this for people who are seeking genuine answers to difficult questions.
 Eye Opening Revelations August 22, 2009
Charles Carter (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
bought this as a replacement for an earlier copy which I lent to a friend. He never returned it so he must also have rated it highly.
The medical behemoth challenged July 31, 2007
ISCA (England)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
I used to be a nurse some years ago and when I read this book I recognised my experience. We all have to place our trust in something or someone in this life but, as this book so ably demonstrates, the medical profession is not necessarily the best place for it. This book (along with a good bibliography) will give you enough amunition to make up your own mind and to go onto further reading.
I think the important thing to remember if you are afraid of challenging medical orthodoxy is they really are only human and they do not possess the answers to all of lifes problems.
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