"Medical treatment of elderly people is not working. Worse, it is often harmful", says author Dr. John Sloan, a family physician who has worked primarily with the elderly for more than twenty years. In A Bitter Pill, he examines why medical treatment from modern medicine’s one-size-fits-all prevention strategy to hospital stays that don’t benefit anyone is failing them and identifies solutions to the problem. Find out more from Dr. John Sloan and this topic.
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A Bitter Pill: How the Medical System is Failing the Elderly is a much-needed wake-up call alerting us to how we’re treating older patients. I’ve also attached a link to his book to find out more on this topic. Plus, there’s also an audio clip posted that you can download with compelling commentary from Dr. John Sloan.
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August 16, 2012
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