{"product_id":"too-many-pills-9781408709788","title":"Too Many Pills","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more) different pills to lower the blood pressure and sugar levels, statins, bone strengthening and cardio protective drugs. In \u003ci\u003eToo Many Pills\u003c\/i\u003e, doctor and writer James Le Fanu examines how this progressive medicalisation of people''s lives now poses a major threat to their health and wellbeing, responsible for a hidden epidemic of drug induced illness (muscular aches and pains, lethargy, insomnia, impaired memory and general decrepitude), a sharp increase in the number of emergency hospital admissions for serious side effects and implicated in the recently noted decline in life expectancy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe paradoxically harmful, if increasingly well recognised, consequences of too much medicine are illustrated by the remarkable personal testimony of the readers of James Le Fanu''s weekly medical column, coerced into tak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Le Fanu meticulously dissects the science, spin and unethical practices -- Gavin Francis * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a profoundly disturbing book . . . written with a passionate clarity that illuminates the most complex matters -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eJames Le Fanu is our most incisive medical journalist, and in his excellent new book he turns his attention to the dangerous and expensive phenomenon of over-prescribing . . . \u003ci\u003eToo Many Pills \u003c\/i\u003eis above praise for its clarity, its elegance of argumentation, its humanity and its uncommon common sense * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eLe Fanu writes with great clarity. He makes complex synthesised data available and clear to the non-specialist, without ever dumbing down * Telegraph *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885549334871,"sku":"9781408709788","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408709788.jpg?v=1722536875","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/too-many-pills-9781408709788","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}