Doctor Chopra Says: Medical Facts and Myths Everyone Should Know: Medical Facts & Myths Everyone Should Know - Hardcover

"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."--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" "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

DR. SANJIV CHOPRA is professor of medicine and faculty dean for continuing medical education at Harvard Medical School, and a senior consultant in hepatology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He has more than one hundred publications and four books to his credit, and is the editor-in-chief of the hepatology section of "UpToDate, " an innovative Internet program that is subscribed to by more than three hundred thousand physicians around the world. In April 2010 he was honored with election as a master of the American College of Physicians. He lives in Weston, Massachusetts. DR. ALAN LOTVIN is a cardiologist. He holds a graduate degree from Columbia University and is the chief executive officer of ICORE Healthcare. He was president and chief operating officer of M/C Communications, a leading medical education provider, and prior to that was president of Specialty Pharmacy Services for Medco Health Solutions. He lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.