June 2008
2 posts
An Employer Health Solution
I’ve found some very good information in Dr. Nortin Hadler’s new book, Worried Sick.
For instance, when considering an individual’s risk of dying early (before the average life expectancy), 75% of the risk is accounted for by socioeconomic status and job satisfaction. 25% of the risk is accounted for by all other risk factors.
In the U.S. we spent about $2.3 trillion on healthcare in 2007.
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Cardiac Stents, Angioplasty, By-Pass…virtually...
My readings on individual autonomy and decision-making have been interrupted by the arrival of: Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America, an elegant guide for the medical layperson and an excoriating refutation of most of medicine’s modern “miracles”. Many of the conclusions in this book would be easy to ignore, if the author were some anti-establishment quack or a...