What Your Doctor Won't Tell You : The Complete Guide to the Latest in Alternative Medicine [Paperback]

Jane Heimlich (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 24, 1990

Take Charge of Your Own Health

From hypertension to hardening of the arteries, cancer to cataracts, Heimlich's authoritative guide surveys the latest nonconventional medical treatments for today's most prevalent diseases. What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an objective, up-to-the minute sourcebook on the most significant alternative approaches to health, including:

Antioxidants • Bach Flower Remedies • Biomagnetism

Colon Detoxification • Electrodiagnosis • Fish Oils • Homeopathy

Kinesiology • Live Cell Therapy • Macrobiotics

Orthomolecular Medicine • Ozone Therapy • Vitamin C Infusion

• And much more

What Your Doctor Wont Tell You introduces you to a new world of medical doctors trained in nutrition and preventive medicine. Heimlich offers objective appraisals of dozens of mainstream medical treatments, from chemotherapy to bypass surgery, and describes why the medical establishment continues to rely on toxic drugs and ineffective treatments owing to its ties with big business and government.

Covering both time-honored and cutting-edge procedures, What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an in-depth overview of the best that alternative medicine has to offer.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Consumers could certainly use a solid journalistic examination of "alternative" medical therapies and their advocates. Heimlich's, unfortunately, is not that book. While justifiably deploring overmedication and unnecessary surgery, Heimlich ( Homeopathic Medicine at Home ) accepts uncritically many suggestions, so long as they do not emanate from the "establishment." The result is a melange of solid good sense (stop smoking to prevent heart disease), interesting potential (acupuncture as a treatment for sundry ailments; the mind-body connection) and much that is highly dubious and potentially dangerous, including discredited south-of-the-border cancer therapies, floral extracts, magnets and "psychic diagnosis." Typical of the author's gullibility is her failure to impute other than altruistic motives to her sources; she accepts, with no apparent awareness of conflict of interest, an "expert" opinion on vitamin megadoses from a manufacturer of such products. Her book will bolster the convictions of believers; its anecdotes, testimonials and naivete will rightly reinforce the doubts of skeptics. Heimlich is married to Henry Heimlich, the physician who devised the lifesaving Heimlich Maneuver.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Like Andrew Weil's Natural Health, Natural Medicine: A Comprehensive Manual for Wellness and Self-Care ( LJ 5/1/90), this well-written book challenges orthodox medicine's preference for surgery and drugs. A journalist and wife of the physician who developed the Heimlich maneuver, the author focuses on the most prevalent diseases with an authoritative review of mainstream medical treatments. Presenting well-documented scientific evidence from medical journals, Heimlich provides an in-depth view of the most significant alternative therapies, such as macrobiotics and chelation. Among a plethora of literature with a similar message, this is a good choice for consumer collections with few books on the subject.
- Marilyn Rosenthal, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial; 1 edition (October 24, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060965398
• ISBN-13: 978-0060965396
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #762,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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50 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars alternative medicine, May 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You : The Complete Guide to the Latest in Alternative Medicine (Paperback)

I thought this was a great book to start with on today's alternative medicine. I have noticed that western medicine is restricted to drugs and surgery because that is what makes the most money. I can see why western doctors would be angry with Jane's book because she questions what is going on with western medicine. If you want to hear something more frightening, listen to the tape "Dead doctors don't lie" by Joel Wallach. Jane may have some mistakes in her book, but my observations as a layman lead me to believe that she is right-on because where western doctors have failed to help my family, holistic healers (naturopaths etc) have triumphed. Especially her chapter about cholesterol. I have found in more and more corners where what she is saying is exactly right - the whole issue is bunk

39 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an excellent book, April 13, 2001

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"gea2u" (Dover, NH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You : The Complete Guide to the Latest in Alternative Medicine (Paperback)

I'm quite perturbed by the negative reviews of what I consider a wonderful book. These reviews seem full of hate and vituperation. They also distort Heimlich's views and are, in my opinion, strongly and strangely biased.

The chapter on chelation, in particular, has saved a good friend of mine from extensive surgery which had been scheduled, but was then cancelled because chelation brought about an increase in circulation which baffled the doctors.

I seriously wonder if these reviewers have actually read this book. It is written in a delightful, often humorous way that makes its points easily and well.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but all over the place, August 5, 2006

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Ronald W. Mcatee "Budda Man" (Annapolis, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You : The Complete Guide to the Latest in Alternative Medicine (Paperback)

Some of the information was new and interesting, but I found the book to be very non-specific. In other words, it would be very hard to create your own health plan based on information from this book.