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Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health


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'ENTHRALLING ... A PASSIONATE, WELL-ARGUED AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING READ' - The Times

AN AMAZON BOOK OF THE YEAR

For readers of Chris van Tulleken, Tim Spector and Ben Goldacre: An international bestseller which reveals how modern-day crises have been caused by the medical establishment, and what you really need to know about your health.

Is HRT unsafe? Should you avoid giving peanut butter to small children? Blind Spots uncovers how inaccurate research drives medical myths which can spark public health crises.

Doctors said for decades that opioids were not addictive, igniting the opioid crisis. They refused menopausal women hormone replacement therapy, causing unnecessary suffering. They demonised natural fat in foods, driving patients to eat processed carbohydrates as obesity soared.
Modern medicine shines when it draws on good scientific studies. But when medicine is led by dogmatic groupthink, it's everyday people who fall victim. Blind Spots examines the latest research to reveal the truths essential to our health.



About the Author :
Born in the UK, Dr Marty Makary is a Johns Hopkins professor and was nominated to be the 26th Commissioner of the FDA. He is the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Unaccountable and The Price We Pay.

A medical innovator, at John Hopkins Makary helped to develop The Surgical Checklist, which was later popularized in Atul Gawande's best-selling book The Checklist Manifesto. Makary was named one of the most influential people in healthcare by HealthLeaders magazine, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, previously worked at the WHO and has been a visiting professor at 25 medical schools.



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'Enthralling and unsettling ... This is a passionate, well-argued and thought-provoking read' 'With trust in science on the wane . . . this may not seem like the best time to criticize the medical profession. Yet a dose of healthy skepticism may be the healthiest attitude when information seems contradictory, whether it's about a decades-long practice or newer, faddish procedures' '[Makary's] critical eye is well suited to this clinically sound report . . . An eye-opening look at how the American medical industry's rigidity has stunted its reliability' 'This book serves as a wake-up call... an essential read for anyone looking to understand the pitfalls of modern medicine and the path to a more effective and compassionate approach to healthcare' 'Timely and highly readable, Blind Spots gives us a much-needed diagnosis of what ails so much of our medical establishment and what can be done about it. Aided by an acute understanding of human nature, Dr. Makary both walks us through a disturbing number of major public health blunders-experts told us for decades that opioids were not addictive, for instance-and how we can instead get refocused on pursuing and following through on sound scientific studies and not fall into the trap of wrongheaded groupthink'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781785126925
  • Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Bonnier Books Ltd
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Sub Title: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
  • Width: 130 mm
  • ISBN-10: 178512692X
  • Publisher Date: 05 Mar 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 264 gr


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