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Bad Doctors
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Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American MedicineOverdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine by John Abramson
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M.D. = retail pharma-salesperson
On The Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your HealthOn The Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health by Jerome P. Kassirer M.D.
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Ever wonder how they got so rich?
Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in AmericaPharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America by Thomas Szasz
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A doctor is basically a legal drug dealer.
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the PoorPathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
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The doctors get richer, and the poor get sicker.
Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally IllMad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
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This is why we don't have universal health care.
Bedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone CrazyBedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy by Joe Sharkey
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The FBI had to create a special division just for investigating crooked psychiatrists.
The War Against Children of Color: Psychiatry Targets Inner City YouthThe War Against Children of Color: Psychiatry Targets Inner City Youth by Peter R Breggin
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I guess the white suburban youths were suing them too often.
The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health MovementThe Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement by Thomas Stephen Szasz
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quack...
Psychiatrists-- The Men Behind Hitler: The Architects of HorrorPsychiatrists-- The Men Behind Hitler: The Architects of Horror by Thomas Roder
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quack, quack...
In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in CanadaIn the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada by Anne Collins
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QUACK!
How Not to Be My Patient: A Physician's Secrets for Staying Healthy and Surviving Any DiagnosisHow Not to Be My Patient: A Physician's Secrets for Staying Healthy and Surviving Any Diagnosis by Dr. Edward Creagan M.D.
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...and here's one GOOD doctor.
Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental IllnessGreat and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness by Elliot S. Valenstein
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Sometimes the "cure" is worse than the original problem. Doctors like to call this the "side-effect" - as in, "I'm rich, and you're a side-effect."
Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Role of the FDABrain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Role of the FDA by Peter R. Breggin MD
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Most psych treatments involve disabling some aspect of normal brain function. On the other hand, simply ~walking~ three times per week has been proven more effective than taking antidepressants.
Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental HealthBlaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health by Elliot Valenstein
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The Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life's Difficulties...and How You Can Be, TooThe Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life's Difficulties...and How You Can Be, Too by Al Siebert
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How to survive your doctor's "chronic" or "terminal" diagnosis. A must-read for schizophrenia and cancer patients.
Beyond Antibiotics: 50 (or so) Ways to Boost Immunity and Avoid Antibiotics Second EditionBeyond Antibiotics: 50 (or so) Ways to Boost Immunity and Avoid Antibiotics Second Edition by Michael A. Schmidt Ph.D
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Take vitamins like C and E to boost immunity.
The Omega-3 Connection: The Groundbreaking Antidepression Diet and Brain ProgramThe Omega-3 Connection: The Groundbreaking Antidepression Diet and Brain Program by Andrew Stoll
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Try fish oil for depression.
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care HandbookWhere There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook by Jane Maxwell
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Clean water and rest seem to cure a lot of things.
Miracle Cures: Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Healing Powers of Herbs, Vitamins, and Other Natural RemediesMiracle Cures: Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Healing Powers of Herbs, Vitamins, and Other Natural Remedies by Jean Carper
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Look up your symptoms online, (that's all your Dr.'s doing!), or read books from amazon.
Alternative Cures: The Most Effective Natural Home Remedies for 160 Health ProblemsAlternative Cures: The Most Effective Natural Home Remedies for 160 Health Problems by Bill Gottlieb
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Stay home and keep your money.
Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second EditionEncyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second Edition by Michael Murray
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See also my entire health topics section.
"...First Do No Harm""...First Do No Harm"
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