TY - JOUR T1 - Worried Sick. A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 463 LP - 463 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.081166 VL - 36 IS - 2 AU - GEORGE E. EHRLICH Y1 - 2009/02/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/36/2/463.2.abstract N2 - Nortin M. Hadler Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008, 392 pages, US $28.00Hadler is Prometheus, fortunately not having to sacrifice his liver to feed the vulture. He wrote this book for the laiety, but it behooves physicians to read it. Although Hobbes described human life as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, it needn’t be that; for the readers of this book who take his message to heart it won’t: They will spend less on treatments that don’t work for diseases that are ephemera and medicines that are income-producers for the industry, but of little or no avail to life expectancy and comfort assurance. Many complaints are ephemeral; they don’t … ER -