Tackling the problems plaguing the U.S. health-care system, this accessible guide explores the pitfalls of contemporary medicine and medical treatments, concentrating on diseases linked to poor lifestyle choices, such as obesity and diabetes. While much of the health-care industry is centered on a blanket approach that addresses a general disease instead of the person affected by it, this guide suggests that personalization is the key to good health. It asserts that patients who make physical, emotional, and spiritual lifestyle changes to improve their diets, exercise regimens, and stress levels can help alleviate problems caused by lifestyle illnesses.
Dr. Peter Weiss is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. While serving in the U.S. Navy, he trained in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases becoming Board Certified in both fields. After his Naval commitment he entered the private practice of infectious disease in Melbourne, Florida. Later he was named Medical Director and then CEO of Health First Health Plans, which, during his tenure, was one of the nation's top health plans according to the US News and World Report/National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) rankings.
Over his career it gradually became clear to Dr. Weiss that traditional healthcare, even in the best medical centers, wasn't resulting in improved health or wellness for most Americans. In his words, "I realized that the greatest burden of illness in our members was directly related to their lifestyles, and that more or better care wasn't going to help most of them. Thereafter, I became committed to helping individuals change their lives, improve their health and avoid illness in the first place."
Feeling this call to action, Dr. Weiss wrote "More Health, Less Care" hoping to give readers useful insights and tools to manage their own health. With it's publication, he left his leading role in traditional healthcare to become a "Wellness Evangelist" - speaking, writing, coaching and otherwise helping ordinary people to gain control of their own health.
