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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
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Paul Ola (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 600,
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Healthcare From The Trenches: An Insider Account of the Complex Barriers of U.S. Healthcare from the Providers and Patients' Perspective
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4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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4.10 avg rating — 9,170 ratings
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Gray's Anatomy
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4.31 avg rating — 3,875 ratings
score: 291,
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Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
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4.15 avg rating — 1,531 ratings
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Butchered by "Healthcare": What to Do About Doctors, Big Pharma, and Corrupt Government Ruining Your Health and Medical Care
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Robert A. Yoho (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 110 ratings
score: 200,
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 112,045 ratings
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White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
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Carl Elliott (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 563 ratings
score: 183,
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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4.28 avg rating — 51,866 ratings
score: 180,
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 44,547 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 241,751 ratings
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Tracking Medicine: A Researcher's Quest to Understand Health Care
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4.15 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Patient Paradox
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4.30 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Apple Watch ECG: The Ultimate ECG Interpretation's Guide; How to Analyze Apple Watch ECG like a Professional
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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History of Medicine for the First and Second Year Medical Student
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Hey! I Could Use a Little Help Here! My Story of Healthcare Workplace Violence
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June Zanes Garen (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
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Marty Makary (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
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4.18 avg rating — 2,595 ratings
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Doctoring Data
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4.44 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It
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Marty Makary (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 4,218 ratings
score: 99,
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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
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4.16 avg rating — 4,418 ratings
score: 98,
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Case Against Sugar
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Gary Taubes (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 11,044 ratings
score: 98,
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Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare
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4.16 avg rating — 374 ratings
score: 97,
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Vitamin C the Common Cold and the Flu
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4.33 avg rating — 73 ratings
score: 97,
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A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-health World
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4.61 avg rating — 269 ratings
score: 96,
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Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'
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4.08 avg rating — 73 ratings
score: 95,
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Sustainable Medicine: Whistle-Blowing on 21st-Century Medical Practice
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4.15 avg rating — 75 ratings
score: 95,
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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
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4.01 avg rating — 961 ratings
score: 94,
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The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It
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4.22 avg rating — 865 ratings
score: 94,
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The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
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3.98 avg rating — 980 ratings
score: 93,
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The $800 Million Pill: The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs
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3.59 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 91,
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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4.20 avg rating — 39,748 ratings
score: 90,
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
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4.12 avg rating — 808 ratings
score: 89,
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Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare
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4.02 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients
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3.87 avg rating — 424 ratings
score: 87,
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How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
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4.18 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
score: 85,
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Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 346 ratings
score: 84,
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Irrationality
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3.91 avg rating — 1,639 ratings
score: 80,
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Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us and How to Know When Not to Trust Them
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3.65 avg rating — 349 ratings
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