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One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine - with powerful lessons for today.
Every medical decision - whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery - is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions 400 years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments. More importantly, understanding the risks is crucial to whether, as a society or as individuals, we accept them.
Told in Offit’s vigorous and rigorous style, You Bet Your Life is an entertaining history of medicine. But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles. Our pandemic year has shown us, with its debates over lockdowns, masks, and vaccines, how easy it is to get everything wrong. You Bet Your Life is an essential listen for getting the future a bit more right.
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“In You Bet Your Life, Offit elucidates, using compelling case studies, how we come to know what we know in science and medicine: through a mix of imagination, experimentation, successes, misses and tragedies. It's a riveting story of what is possible when confidence and humility meet, and what seems inevitable when hubris dominates. Illuminating the Covid-19 pandemic and how we got to safe and effective vaccines so quickly, it is also a timeless read for anyone interested in science, ethics, discovery and how we can better prevent the next pandemic.” (Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation)
"What makes Paul Offit so special, beyond his extraordinary talents as a physician, vaccine-developer, and children’s advocate, is his ability to bring complicated scientific subjects to life. You Bet Your Life is the latest example - a thoughtful, beautifully written account of the risks and rewards of medical technology told through the eyes of the inventors and their patients. Tragedy is an inevitable part of the process; breakthroughs come at a human cost, even those that have saved untold millions of lives. To read this elegant book is grasp these ethical complexities - with a masterful medical writer as our guide." (David Oshinsky, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for Polio: An American Story)
“Offit is a fluid storyteller armed with decades of knowledge, and he provides an educative...reading experience.” (Kirkus)
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Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists, and the funders behind them, who take advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. In Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation.
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Important and Engaging
- De mobius_spider en 03-22-19
De: Paul A. Offit MD
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The Body
- A Guide for Occupants
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Bill Bryson
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body - how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted."
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Must Read for the Sheer Fun of It
- De J.B. en 10-16-19
De: Bill Bryson
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Overkill
- When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
- De: Paul A. Offit
- Narrado por: Tim H. Dixon
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An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful. Yet, surprisingly, despite clear evidence to the contrary, most doctors continue to recommend them.
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fascinating
- De GS en 05-13-20
De: Paul A. Offit
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Vaccinated
- From Cowpox to mRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines
- De: Paul A. Offit
- Narrado por: Tim Dixon
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Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs—vaccinations—and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide.
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Must read for pediatric professionals and public health professional
- De laithejeilat en 04-15-24
De: Paul A. Offit
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Pandora’s Lab
- Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
- De: Paul A. Offit MD
- Narrado por: Greg Tremblay
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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Pandora's Lab takes us from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the United States; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed; and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria.
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Stick to the science and drop the political slant.
- De Nancy Johnson Mercado en 06-03-17
De: Paul A. Offit MD
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Bad Faith
- When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
- De: Paul A. Offit MD
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
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In recent years there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio's Amish country - despite the fact that these are all vaccine-preventable diseases. Although America is the most medically advanced place in the world, many people disregard modern medicine in favor of using their faith to fight life-threatening illnesses. In 21st-century America, how could this be happening?
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Odd
- De airmom en 04-12-17
De: Paul A. Offit MD
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Bad Advice
- Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
- De: Paul A. Offit MD
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
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Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists, and the funders behind them, who take advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. In Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation.
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Important and Engaging
- De mobius_spider en 03-22-19
De: Paul A. Offit MD
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The Body
- A Guide for Occupants
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Bill Bryson
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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Historia
Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body - how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted."
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Must Read for the Sheer Fun of It
- De J.B. en 10-16-19
De: Bill Bryson
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- Christopher
- 11-03-21
A doctor makes an argument for vaccine choice.
this book is so important during these times of government overreach and forced vaccination. we all have the right to make a choice with our health and experimental drugs
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- Don
- 03-05-22
Balanced presentations until the end
While each novel medical technique or therapy was conscientiously presented in a balanced format, reminding the reader of what was and was not known at the time, the social and societal setting, and the emphasis of these investigators to help humanity, I felt this format became very cursory as the last topic--Covid-19--was addressed. The vaccine technologies are in use in targeted therapy synthesis, long-term studies are not available as they are occurring along side the daily need to treat infected patients, over 400 Million cases worldwide and nearly 6 Million deaths. "Watchful waiting" has a significant cost.
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SKEPTICAL OR STUPID
Like Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “The Emperor of All Maladies”, Paul Offit reflects on patients who risk their lives based on medical treatment and prescribed drugs by educated scientists, physicians, and drug manufacturers. Both Mukherjee and Offit write of the medical causes of death and attempts made by the medical profession to save lives. What both books have in common is that the medical industry, just as in all life’s work, is influenced by money, power, and prestige. Those influences carry risks and rewards.
Doctors, scientists, drug manufacturers, and medical employees make good and bad decisions based on educational achievement, hands-on medical experience, and personal motivation. That is true in all forms of work employment. The difference is we who are not part of the medical industry are intimately and mortally affected by its practice and advertisement. Bad medical decisions can end a life; good medical decisions can save a life. Government oversight, like the FDA, CDC, USDA, and the World Health Organization work on minimizing risk to society but risk reduction is a work in progress.
The lesson one draws from these two physicians is that the public has a right to be skeptical but there is no right to be stupid. Dying will always be a part of our lives, whether mistakes are made or not.
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- Amazon customer
- 10-30-21
Enjoyable and informative
If you are interested in the history of medicine and medical ethics, you will find this book fascinating. Offit focuses on major advances in medicine and discusses the human cost that led to these advances. History can be dry, but the best histories are the opposite when they bring persons and personalities back to life--this is true here. It is difficult not to be invested in the human dramas Offit describes. After the first chapter or two you begin to anticipate the plot: Oh no! Here is another person I am being introduced to, and if they are in this book, things almost certainly won't end well for them! Impending medical tragedy! But despite that, the book includes details that make you really care about these people and get sucked into what happened to them. Another thing I appreciated was how fresh the material was for me. I am a medical ethicist, a philosopher by training, and although I had studied the Jesse Gelsinger case before, most of the other episodes were partially or entirely new to me. I finished the book feeling like I had learned a lot about important moments in medical history and details that will enrich my understanding of medical advancements and how they affect people. So it wasn't just the human drama from the book I enjoyed, I also liked the book because I felt I learned so much. I had to give a couple of presentations this week and I found myself referring to something I had learned about in the book both times.
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- Andrew
- 12-14-23
A great detailed book.
I enjoyed every chapter and its details.
The reader was great. I highly recommend this title to All.
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- Lara
- 10-21-21
Flat and Dull
I love books about medical history, but I had a hard time following this one. The author jumped around so much I found myself losing the point he was trying to make. The delivery of the narrator never varied in tone, which made it tough to pay attention.
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