{"product_id":"9781556439889","title":"Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs: How Surgery Can Be Hazardous to Your Health And What to Do About It","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eDoctors Are More Harmful Than Germs\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInflammation, according to Dr. Bigelsen, is the real cause of all chronic disease (persistent or long-lasting illness). Noting that Western medicine has yet to “cure” 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, \u003ci\u003eDoctors Are More Harmful Than Germs\u003c\/i\u003e challenges readers to rethink everything they believe about illness and how to treat it.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183274836208,"sku":"9781556439889","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556439889_p0.jpg?v=1763755721","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556439889","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}