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<p> With wisdom and wit, Sanjiv Chopra and Alan Lotvinshow how to navigate the vast sea of health information, from vaccines to vitamins, cold remedies to colonoscopies, marijuana to mammograms. The reader will benefit from this prescription of a healthy dose of skepticism and common sense. <br>--Jerome Groopman, New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think <p> <p> Helpful, accessible information about a broad variety of health concerns. -- Kirkus Reviews <p><p> A tremendously useful book. <p>--Nicholas H. Fiebach, M.D., professor of clinical medicine, Columbia University<br>

A tremendously useful book.

With wisdom and wit, Sanjiv Chopra and Alan Lotvin show how to navigate the vast sea of health information, from vaccines to vitamins, cold remedies to colonoscopies, marijuana to mammograms. The reader will benefit from this prescription of a healthy dose of skepticism and common sense. --Jerome Groopman, MD, Recanati Professor, Harvard Medical School and author of How Doctors Think Doctor Chopra Says is a tremendously useful book. It will help people who want to improve their health or avoid risks cut through the blizzard of claims in the popular media and understand the actual scientific evidence, or lack of it in many cases. Even physicians may find it helpful, since it's not easy for us to track down the basis for all of the tantalizing remedies or worrying hazards our patients ask us about. --Nicholas H. Fiebach, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University Helpful, accessible information about a broad variety of health concerns. --Kirkus Reviews<br>

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Dr. Sanjiv Chopra is professor of medicine and faculty dean for continuing medical education at Harvard Medical School. He is a senior consultant in hepatology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the editor-in-chief of UpToDate in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, has more than one hundred publications and four specialist books to his credit, and is the author of the forthcoming book Leadership by Example. He lives in Weston, Massachusetts. Dr. Alan Lotvin is a cardiologist by training and practice. He lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

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