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Book SynopsisTrade Review"...[A] well-researched and fascinating read detailing the heart-wrenching experience so common to millions of back pain sufferers. Ramin exposes the devastating financial and emotional cost of back pain...Ultimately, her in-depth research lights the way to a better path for healing." -- Miranda Esmonde-White, New York Times bestselling author of Forever Painless "...Ramin offers a thoughtful and heartfelt way ... to treat one of humankind's most debilitating disorders-chronic back pain. A remarkable guide from someone who unfortunately had to make the journey, and found her way out." -- Paul A. Offit, MD, author of Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong "I see back pain patients who have undergone invasive procedures before they go through evidence-based rehabilitation. In a most engaging way, Cathryn Jakobson Ramin tells it like it is. Whether you're a patient, a physician, or a public policy wonk, you should read this book." -- VIJAY VAD, MD, sports medicine specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and author of Back RX "...Ramin has written a riveting and disturbing account of a sector of American medicine that's gone very wrong... Politics, science, history-it's all in there, along with concrete advice for fellow sufferers. Policymakers can learn from this book, and patients can, too." -- Jonathan Cohn, author of The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis and The People Who Pay the Price "[A] thoroughly reported first-person take on the back-pain industry ... Buyer beware! This cautionary book ends on a high note with the once-hobbled-by-back-pain author standing up straight and hiking a 13,000-foot trail in the Peruvian Andes." -- Booklist
