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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness CD: Dr. Dean's Commonsense Guide for Anything That Ails You
by Dean Edell
from HarperAudio
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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More Common Sense and Rational Advice from Dr. Dean 
As a fellow physician in the trenches of modern health care, reading any book by Dr. Dean Edell gives me hope. We live in a world gone mad with access to information (some reliable, some pure nonsense) and in a country obsessed with health, longevity, and quick miracle fixes. America's best known physician has long been a beacon of reason and rationality in the practical pursuit of better health, and his latest contribution, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Healthiness, thank goodness, is no exception.more info
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Do Your Homework, Doctor! 
As a along time sufferer of Fibromyalgia (FMS), I was horrified to see Dr. Edell haul out that old and thoroughly disproven idea that it is a psychological illness. I am a psychiatric social worker, and have had umpteen tests, all normal. Many studies have shown no more psych problems than in any pain syndrome. This illness has ruined the lives of 10 million (mostly) women in the prime of their lives. Hey Doc, read the functional MRI studies, the SPECT and PET scan studies, the cardiomyopathy studies, the... more info
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It's a keeper
As a mother of 2, this book will join my other more traditional health books on the book shelf. My husband and I really enjoyed the "readability" of this book. We like the family health aspect as opposed to the childrens health books we already own. Reading Dr. Edell is like getting a second opinion. We can also relate to his common sense take on things, since this is how we live our lives.
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Too superficial to be worthwhile
Name a topic. ANY topic. Type that into a search engine, and you can learn far more in a few minutes than you can from Dr. Edell's superficial treatment of too many topics in this book. Edell is a generalist, not a specialist. As such, he knows a little about almost everything, and evidently not much about anything. In fact, Dr. Edell seems to possess a gift for superficiality. (Perhaps because he has been doing his radio show for so long, since radio hosts generally tend to gloss over topics to "keep the... more info
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