Confessions of a Medical Heretic, by Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD.

• Approximately 2.4 million operations performed every year are unnecessary and cost about 12,000 lives.
• In six New York hospitals, 43 percent of performed hysterectomies reviewed were found to be unjustified.
• Historically, when doctors have gone on strike, the mortality rate has dropped.

These are just a few of the shocking facts presented by Dr Robert Mendelsohn in Confessions of a Medical Heretic. This new release of the critically acclaimed bestseller gives readers the information needed to help make their own medical decisions. Dr Mendelsohn, world-famous physician and patient advocate, was a pioneer in the movement toward truth in the medical profession. Here he explains why Modern Medicine's methods are often more dangerous than the diseases they are designed to diagnose and treat. This provocative book covers issues from unncessary surgery and prescribed drugs to preventative medicine andhomebirth. At a time when Americans are more concerned than ever with total health and how to achieve it, this is a book you can't afford to ignore.

Dr Robert Mendelsohn, known to millions through his nationally syndricated colum as "The People's Doctor", was the national medical director of Project Head Start and charman of the Medical Licensure Committee for the state of Illinois. Amoung the many faculty and hospital posts he held, he was an associate professor at the University of Illinois Medical School and a director of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital. His other books include Male Practice: How Doctors Manipulate Women and How to Raise a Healthy Child... in Spite of Your Doctor.