Hospitals and Health: Your Orthomolecular Guide to a Shorter, Safer Hospital Stay - Hardcover

Hoffer M.D. Ph.D., Abram; Saul Ph.D., Andrew W.; Hickey, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1681627345 ISBN 13: 9781681627342

Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc., 2010

Synopsis

This book looks at how hospital care got on the wrong track, from historical and economic perspectives. It then offers suggestions for minimizing the risks of a hospital stay and ways to improve your on experience. Good nutrition is the key - to boost your immune system, speed recovery from illness, and reduce your need for pharmaceuticals.

About this title

About the Author:

I have lived a full, interesting and creative life supported by my family and many friends and irritated and spurred on by the hostile criticisms of a group of psychiatrists representing APA and NIMH. I was born on a farm in Southern Saskatchewan in 1917, completed High School in a rural school, my PhD at University of Minnesota and Medical degree at University of Toronto. By the time I got my first job I was 33 years old, had three children and was totally fed up with being a student. The last thing in the world I wanted to do was to become a psychiatrist, then the lowest branch of medicine. My wife Rose put up with these long student years while she brought up our three children. Bill became one of the world’s best antiquarian book experts. He died 6 years ago from lung cancer. John is a Professor of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal a great clinician and researcher into nutrition, and Miriam is dietitian at Women College hospital in Toronto and recently published her very good book Fueling Body, Mind and Spirit. Rose died in August 2001 and since then I am alone but absorbed with my family and my work. I have the support of remarkable friends and scientists and all of us working together will eventually overhaul medicine back to its interest in nutrition and in nutrients. Since they did not know me personally I never took it personally although I must admit I would have preferred had they been supportive. I give my critics full credit for having delayed the full introduction of orthomolecular medicine into the medical world and for having denied life, health and happiness for innumerable patients. Supporters of old paradigms never realize how much damage they do by their remarkable rigidity and adherence to old theories.

Review:

"For the inside scoop, I highly recommend reading Hospitals and Health." - Dr. Joseph Mercola

"Hospitals and Health fits exactly into our philosophy of health and healing. I attribute much of my good health (at age 91) to my total avoidance not only of doctors but of hospitals. I am thoroughly interested in the work of Dr. Abram Hoffer and the dramatic results he obtained." - Charlotte Gerson

 "Hospitals and Health should be read by every American before their first doctor's appointment or hospital stay." - Sue Vogan, Bookpleasures

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1681627345
• ISBN 13: 9781681627342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256