A well-balanced, accessible guide to taking control of your personal health.

Despite lifesaving technologies and wonder drugs, much is wrong with modern medicine. From diagnosis and treatment to medical politics and economics, Ten Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor sounds the alarm, without being alarmist, about the pitfalls of the medical system.

Health writers Moynihan and Sweet take a balanced approach to prescription drugs and natural remedies alike and conclude each chapter with questions that patients can take with them to their doctors' offices. They discuss:

• the downsides of medical testing
• misdiagnosis and side effects
• withheld information about treatment options and operations who profits from various procedures
• a variety of conditions, including adhd, osteoporosis, and back pain

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Ray Moynihan has covered the business of health care for more than a decade with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Financial Review, and the British Medical Journal. He is an award-winning journalist and the author of four books, including Selling Sickness, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Moynihan lives in Byron Bay, Australia.

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Melissa Sweet has illustrated more than one hundred books, including Kwame Alexander’s How to Read a Book and How to Write a Poem, and has written and illustrated her own work. Her work has been featured in magazines, on greeting cards, and on living room walls. Melissa has received the Caldecott Honor Medal twice, among many other awards, including the Sibert Award, and is a New York Times bestselling author and artist. Melissa lives in Maine. You can visit her at melissasweet.net.

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Alan Cassels is a drug policy researcher at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, and is the co-author (with Ray Moynihan) of the international bestseller Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients.

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