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Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It by James Le Fanu (Paperback, 2018)
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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.
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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 drug induced illness (muscular aches and pains, lethargy, insomnia, impaired memory and general decrepitude), a sharp increase in the number of emergency hospital admissions for serious side effects and implicated in the recently noted decline in life expectancy. The paradoxically harmful, if increasingly well recognised, consequences of too much medicine are illustrated by the remarkable personal testimony of the readers of James Le Fanu's weekly medical column, coerced into taking drugs they do not need, debilitated by their adverse effects - and their almost miraculous recovery on discontinuing them. The only solution, he argues, is for the public to take the initiative. His review of the relevant evidence for the efficacy, or otherwise, of commonly prescribed drugs should allow readers of Too Many Pills to ask much more searching questions about the benefits and risks of the medicines they are taking.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139781408709771
eBay Product ID (ePID)7046652597
Product Key Features
Publication Year2018
TopicPopular Medicine
Book TitleToo Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine Is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do about It
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorJames Le Fanu
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height158 mm
Item Weight415 g
Item Width235 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJames Le Fanu
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- 24 Dec, 2018
Are we being needlessly over-prescribed medication?
Confirming my concerns that medication can at times be prescribed more to meet "targets", as against actually targeting the ailment. After reading the book I've arbitrarily cut down on my tablet intake, and feel a whole lot better for it. However, I do not advise this course of action for everyone. A difficult read at times for a non-medical numpty like myself, necessitating some repeat reading of certain passages. The bar/pie charts would be easier to comprehend/absorb if in colour, as opposed to various shades of grey (pun intended). Overall I'm well-pleased with my purchase.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 27 Nov, 2019
Read this book - it could just save your life.
Everyone should read this book. It will tell you all about the over-prescribing of medication by doctors and hospitals. Some people are on multiple pills and this could be shortening their life, or even lead to a premature death. GPs get paid by the government to prescribe medication at a 'preventive' measure, even if the patient does not really need it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 22 Jan, 2023
Enjoying life.
Essential reading for anyone in the second half of their life. We are all consuming too many pills and the doctors are guilty of dish out the same. We also need to eat less processed food.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 23 Jan, 2019
An insight an eyeopener
Was told about this book by a friend . It could change your life. For the better.!!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 27 Jun, 2018
Very informative
Good information for anyone taking pills for no good reason. Pity all doctors do not have a copy.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 31 Oct, 2018
very straight forward in undersatnding
great to have some common sense and an understanding of the correct means of obtaining medicationVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 18 Aug, 2024
Fascinating! A book to keep dipping int...
Fascinating! A book to keep dipping into.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 06 Sep, 2019
truthful
honest /well prodused/a real insite into modern medicines dubios practiceVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
