Medical Madness

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MEDI ul IDNEDO, How To PREVENT THE LEADINGCAUSE OEE OOR HEALTH.

LYNNE MCTAGGART

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MEDICAL MADNESS How To Prevent

the Leading Cause of Poor Health

by Lynne McTaggart

© Copyright 1995 by What Doctors Don’t Tell You, LLC, 105 W. Monument St., Baltimore, MD 21201. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher.

This book and the regular monthly issues of What Doctors Don't Tell You are intended to give general information, not personal, one-on-one medical advice. Readers should not undertake any program of treatment without personal advice and screening by health professionals.

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Meet Your Best Friend When It Comes to Health Lynne McTaggart is the editor and co-founder of What Doctors Don’t Tell You, a consumer newslet-

ter published for five years in Britain and now introduced to the United States for the first time. She’s an award-winning journalist who has written regularly for many U.S. and international magazines on health and other issues. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Times of London, Parade, the Sunday Telegraph and many other publications. Lynne McTaggart received the New York Women’s Press Club Award of Merit, presented annually to one writer for distinguished journalism. In Britain she was awarded “columnist of the year” by the London Times business press. As an acknowledged expert she was invited to testify before a U.S. Senate subcom-

mittee. She helped launch and then edited Dr. Robert Mendelsohn’s popular column, People’s Doctor. ) Her first book, The Baby Brokers, was the first to expose the innermost working of the private adoption racket and became the basis of a popular television movie. Since 1988, Lynne McTaggart has shaken the British medical establishment with her monthly newsletter What Doctors Don't Tell You. She has earned the fanatic loyalty of her readers (80% renew) with her relentless investigation of the sham science behind most medical practices. When Lynne McTaggart and her contributors report on a subject, the authorities in the field often consider it the final word, even citing it in legal cases. Nearly a third ‘of her readers are health professionals themselves.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Many Medical Treatments Do Not Work — And Actually Harm You!.......... Page 7 Chapter 2: You Can Stop Cancer RCENGILLUTLISWAY. gs scetscdany Seer eecunvesateocst Page 15 Chapter 3: Hospital Horror Story........ Page 21

Chapter 4: Your Consumer Watchdog vs. the Medical Establishment................... Page 27 Chapter 5: “Everybody Does It” Doesn’t Mean It’s Safe ........02...ccesssecese0es Page 31

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Chapter 8: Hormone Replacement Therapy: Fountain of Youth or WPeATIY SONILENCE? oath dic gncaet Slee Mo Redeceeeees Page 43 Chapter 9: You're Not Getting RPM ier Shed cae ck eat casi iecectscnwasneetenctosPage 49 Chapter 10:Just a Minute, Surgeon! Heart “Cures” that Don’t Work ............ Page 55

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