Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs: How Surgery Can Be Hazardous to Your Health - And What to Do About It

Most people would consider a knife wound to the stomach a serious health risk, but a similar scalpel wound in an operating room is often shrugged off. In <i>Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs</i>, Dr. Harvey Bigelsen explains how today's medical doctors overprescribe surgery and ignore its long-term health implications. Any invasive medical procedure, he argues - including colonoscopies and root canals - creates inflammation in the body, leading to serious and long-lasting health problems.<br><br>Inflammation, according to Dr. Bigelsen, is the real cause of all chronic disease (persistent or long-lasting illness) . Noting that Western medicine has yet to &quot;cure&quot; a single chronic disease, Bigelsen points to a new paradigm: one that treats each patient as an individual (rather than as a set of symptoms) , avoids further damage to the body through surgery, and looks for the root cause of chronic disease in past damage done to the patient's body - whether caused by a bad fall or a scalpel. Provocatively written and radical in its approach, <i>Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs</i> challenges readers to rethink everything they believe about illness and how to treat it.