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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Contemporary Books; 1st edition (January 1, 1979)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 197 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0809241315
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0809241316
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.47 x 9 inches
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Customers find the book great, interesting, and never boring. They also appreciate the wonderful insight into the professional realm of medicine. Readers describe the information as eye-opening, mind-awakening, and possibly life-saving.

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Customers find the book great, interesting, and prescient. They also say it's easy to read.

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"...This is an excellent book, and until we revamp or somehow generate ourselves a more humane, true health care system, the book is at least as germane..." Read more

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Customers find the book wonderful, informative, and eye-opening. They say it's educational and relevant. Readers also appreciate that the author exposes doctors and their surgeries.

"...My quick summary review:Pros: Very good rundown of the perverse incentives and shortcomings that actively drive the medical establishment...." Read more

"The information in this book is priceless but too bad the price keeps climbing from a penny to what it is now due to typical human ill-greed over..." Read more

"...Doctor Robert S. Mendelsohn Does a great job of exposing doctors and their surgeries for what they really are : unnecessary!..." Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars Still very relevant and useful!
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2024
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This is an amazing book with a lot of important warnings and good wisdom
that are still relevant today. It seems like required reading for life.
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Miles Odonnol
5.0 out of 5 stars Doctors on Strike; Fatalties Down!
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Unfortunately for me, I am currently suffering from the side effects of a prescribed medication (the muscle relaxant, cyclobenzaprine), so I am sensitized.

Another reveiwer (A Customer) says that Mendelsohn's 1979 message is out of date. On page 26, Confessions of a Medical Heretic states that in the US, annual deaths from adverse reactions to prescribed drugs run around 20,000 to 30,000 per year. According to my research, current (2013) estimates put this figure at 100,000 to 300,000. So in this aspect at least I would not call Mendelsohn out of date. It's not like the problem has been solved.

I love Dr. Mendelsohn, and would follow him anywhere. Wait a minute. That is exactly the kind of blind faith that he was cautioning against. Didn't I learn anything? I would question him everywhere. Actually Mendelsohn passed away in 1988, so he is no longer available for questioning. But one thing I would question is his opposition to national health insurance. Having lived both under it, and out from under it, it seems to me that under it is better. But maybe there is some subtlety that I am missing? Maybe it's something about the insurance part.

Anyway, I am sure that Mendelsohn must have had many positive experiences during his long and illustrious career, and he mentions (p. 25) having been proud to have taken part in the miracle of Modern Medicine. But he felt that a cautionary message was needed, so that is what he wrote. Page 167: "I have written this book precisely to scare and to radicalize people BEFORE they are hurt."

My quick summary review:
Pros: Very good rundown of the perverse incentives and shortcomings that actively drive the medical establishment.

Cons: Mendelsohn is a bit heavy handed with his Modern-Medicine-as-religion analogy. Not that he's wrong, mind you, but he pounds it. Of course I am not a physician and I do not have his years of experience; maybe if were and I did, I'd pound it too.

One thing that HAS changed since 1979 is the internet availibility of medical information. The patient's job is a lot easier since access to a PDR is no longer necessary.

This is an excellent book, and until we revamp or somehow generate ourselves a more humane, true health care system, the book is at least as germane as when it was first published. And that's not just the cyclobenzaprine talking either. Applying the principles in this book could save your life, or your quality of life, or that of a loved one. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Question the mainstream materialist medical complex
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2024
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An interesting book on heretic warning of the God like government and materialistic abdication of self-government for materialist/physicalist worldview that has lead to record drug use, addictions, obesity, medicalization, psycholgization etc. A warning on universal government healthcare and the sickness of a egoic materialist/physycalist conditioning.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-Opening!!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2011
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There is a vast amount of information in this book that will disturb you, but as it is true with the evil ways of this world: ignorance is not bliss, but may cost you your life. Read this book!

Healthy living in this world does not exist by living recklessly, eating carelessly, and submitting oneself to the whim of every guinea pig experiment that will surely arise from living this way. However, healthy living starts with a life change. Dr. Robert Mendelsohn refers to the hospital as the "Church of Modern Religion." Being a Christian, and have attending church, I speak from experience of the lack of the church doing any good thing for anyone's life. However, Jesus Christ on the other hand can change your life completely, and has nothing to do with church, religion, denomination, etc... Along the same lines, the hospital, the doctor, the drugs; they do not heal you, just as the church couldn't "heal" you, but Jesus the way, the truth, and the life, CAN! How? It starts with repentance.

There is no difference in living a healthy lifestyle either...it starts with repentance. Repent from the dead works! Are you eating organic? Do you eat foods that will promote healthy living? Do you even know what those are? Quit eating Genetically Modified Foods (GMO's.) They are not labeled so you have to do your research to make sure you are eating healthy. Don't stop there. Investigate everything you use from deodorant to the clothes you wear, to how you cook your food. You will be surprised at what you find!

There is much to learn in the ways of the world. This is much ignorance in the ways of people following in the traditions of man. Just because its easier and faster or works well does not mean that it is the right thing to do or use. Just because the whole world has accepted an idea and it has become accustom to a culture does not mean that it is truly proficient, safe, or moral. Ask child like questions, repent of the bad you find, and keep searching.

God bless you on your life change.
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Sebastian Gaudi
5.0 out of 5 stars Para quien quiera preservar su salud y su sanidad en un mundo lleno de “expertos” de bata blanca
Reviewed in Spain on August 30, 2020
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Mendelson es un maestro observador con un pensamiento critico como pocos. En vez de tomar los procedimientos de la profesion medica como dogma, los cuestiona. Si todo el mundo leyera este libro, la industria pro-dinero farmaco-medica se caeria al suelo en 3 años.

La inmensa mayoria de sus procesos, cirugias y farmacos no solo son inefectivos e innecesarios, sino perjudiciales para la salud.
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fabrizio
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Reviewed in Italy on June 13, 2020
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libro senza nessuna utilita. non descrive cio che e in titolo
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Morley Evans
5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Mendelsohn Spills the Beans
Reviewed in Canada on August 26, 2013
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Dr. Mendelsohn exposes Modern Medicine as a hoax — a false religion whose priests are gods who have the power to defeat pain and death. Doctors are worshipped by patients and potential patients alike who reward them with respect, praise and riches doctors do not deserve, according to Dr. Mendelsohn. Everyone is a potential patient. Healthy people need only visit a doctor to start the journey to sickness and death. Dr. Mendelsohn brings to light the many reasons doctors cannot be not one's "partner in health."
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Clare W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Ever Get Sick!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2012
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Wow what an eye opener. This was written back in 1979 and I imagine things have gotten a lot worse since then. More surgical procedures, more toxic drugs, no doubt "new" illnesses and syndromes, and more drugging of our children instead of sorting out their dreadful diets. If I ever go to a doctor which is very rare I just want to know what they think is wrong with me and then look after it myself. I have managed to reach sixty two years and am still very much alive and kicking without help from drugs. I dread the time that I may have to accept a GP's help as I know I will have to throw away the little piece of paper that states the side effects,otherwise I will not take them. I have had Virus Pneumonia and Glandular Fever neither of which were helped by the GP who was unable to prescribe anything thank goodness. My body healed me very successfully on it's own. What I want to know is how on earth has the human race survived and managed to populate all the corners of the earth without medicine? Are we not able to heal ourselves 99% of the time without allopathic intervention? Our creator has given us bodies that strive for homeostasis and if given the right conditions will carry us into old age healthy and active. I remember saying to a doctor friend that they could only heal two things, and she said, no that was wrong, they can heal nothing. Give them their due and in the case of trauma they are wonderful. If the so called civilized populations changed their lifestyle and diets then maybe, just maybe, there would be no need for doctors. Utopia! Let us have a new kind of health professional who studies health rather than sickness, and might prescribe a big salad every day for let's say constipation, or fruit to cleanse an irritated colon. Yes, we do have Naturopaths, and Homeopaths and other wonderful therapies and treatments, but not on the National "Health" Service. Before somebody corrects me I know Homeopathy is supposed to be on the NHS, but I have never known anybody who was able to use it. We should be able to choose whom to see if we are ill and the kind of treatment we want. I bet it would be a lot cheaper for the Government of the day.
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Holly
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
Reviewed in Canada on September 6, 2019
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An excellent book even though it was published 40 years ago. Amazingly, it's still a relevant criticism of modern medicine.
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