Navigating the Maze of Medicine: - Piloting your way through the mesmerising maze of medical, healthcare and health information on the Internet - Softcover

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NAVIGATING OUR WAY THROUGH THE MESMERISING MAZE OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Having a health problem is bad enough without having to face the insecurity of not knowing what the problem is and how you're going to treat it. You may not have the time or money to see a health practitoner and see the Internet is a quick, easy to use, inexpensive option for getting these answers. However, BEWARE, much of the information is incorrect. This book will help you identify misleading and deliberately manipulative medical and health information and provide ACCURATE answers to following questions:

What is wrong with my health?
How can I treat it?
Will I get better?
When will I get better?

This book will do the following:

• Explain how amazing but complicated medicine and our bodies are. This is crucially important to understanding some of the limitations of medicine.
• Identifying some key traps to look out for when trying to find the right diagnosis and treatment. This will stop you needlessly wasting your time and money as well as exposing yourself to avoidable inconvenience and discomfort.
• Using my long-standing experience in medicine and public health, I will take you through an easy to use, step-by-step approach to consider and examine the information that is being presented to you in order to decipher the degree to which you can truly trust what is being said. We will look at the authors, the underpinning research and plausibility of what is being proposed.
• I will then apply the approach to review the treatment options from complementary and alternative medicine as well as over-the-counter and prescription drugs from big pharmaceutical companies and the innumerable supplements being sold to you by the nutritional industry.
• Finally the book ends with advice on avoiding false claims and promises if you or one of your loved ones ends up with a terminal condition

There is so much misleading medical, healthcare and health information on the Internet which is being actively promoted as being absolute facts and undoubtable proof. It is so important to be able to pick the good information from the bad. In doing so, you will save yourself so much time, money, worry, inconvenience and discomfort. In the worst case scenario, by following the wrong information, you might find yourself suffering severe side effects and long term health damage that could so easily have been avoided.

Dr Daragh Fahey is a medical doctor and public health consultant with 27 years’ experience in evaluating the accuracy and relevance of medical and health research. In this book he takes you through an easy-to-use approach to navigate your way through this mesmerising, minefield of medical and health information including traditional and complimentary medicine and nutritional health. By adopting this approach, you will be much more likely to quickly find the right information for you. The main motivation in writing this book is to reduce the number of mistakes which people make from inaccurate and misleading internet driven medical and health information.

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