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Health & Fitness Health Care Issues

The Healthy Barmaid

by (author) W. Gifford-Jones

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Feb 1995
Category
Health Care Issues
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550222432
    Publish Date
    Feb 1995
    List Price
    $15

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Description

Located at the heart of London’s teaching hospitals, The Red Lion pub is the regular haunt of the area’s most distinguished medical professors. For years, they have been stopping in for a pint, and to talk over the day’s medical issues with Ida, the pub’s remarkably vibrant and energetic proprietor. In The Healthy Barmaid, we join them in their nightly talks, and learn about such vital medical issues as the controversial role of cholesterol in cardiovascular disease, the importance of hormone therapy for both sexes, sporting injuries that should never happen, vitamin therapy, the benefits of moderate drinking, why some people are destined for a medical hell, and many other topics.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Dr. W. Gifford-Jones has written several books on medical topics. His column, noted for calling a spade a spade, appears in newspapers throughout Canada and the United States.