Dr. Abigail Zugar compares and contrasts to doctors' books on health and wellness in today's New York Times. The two books offer close to an opposite approach to health; one advocating screening tests and careful monitoring of the body's systems and the other advocating that the over-medicating of relatively minor problems is causing more harm than good.
Dr. Zugar points out that the contrast points to a discussion about what exactly is wellness? Is wellness the complete removal of disease or is it learning to cope with illnesses without becoming a perpetual patient? What is the emotional toll of always thinking, or even worrying, about health and illness?
Thought-provoking reading: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/health/24book.html?ex=1372046400&en=8feef82ac9684dd2&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink.
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