What doctors don't tell you

Physician David Newman has written a book well-nigh the secrets your doctor keeps from you. But he's not talking about "secret cures" that sell books on alternative medicine. Instead, his new book, Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine (Scribner), is all about the secrets that hide in unpatterned sight in medical journals and hospital hallways:

�Doctors don't know as much as you think they do. For instance, they don't know what causes nigh cases of back pain or what makes it better.

�Doctors do know that many of the tests, drugs and procedures they order and prescribe either do non work or have not been proved to act upon. Case in point: They keep prescribing antibiotics for colds and bronchitis.

, a 2007 christian Bible by former health journalist Shannon Brownlee, just out in paper-back book. She writes that the biggest job is doctors and hospitals "get paid more for doing more."

Whatever the causes, part of the cure must be straight tattle, Newman says: "There is a lot of personal responsibility in this. It's all some patients and doctors communicating."

READERS: Do you confidence your doctor? If non, who or what do you find fault? Share your experiences below:

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Recurrence Risk Low For Women Who Survive Breast Cancer Five Years After Treatment, Study Says

�Women wHO survive knocker cancer for at least five age after treatment have an 89% chance that they will non have a recurrence of the cancer after 10 years and an 81% chance after 15 days, according to a study published online Tuesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, USA Today reports.

The study involved 2,838 women diagnosed with breast genus Cancer from 1985 to 2001 who had surgery to remove the original tumour, some of whom had radiation. All of the women besides took medication to forbid the cancer from returning (Szabo, USA Today, 8/13). Cancer returned after five-spot years in 7% of women treated for microscope stage I breast cancer, 11% of women treated for stage II cancer and 13% of women toughened for leg III cancer (Dunham, Reuters, 8/12).

Study author Abenaa Brewster, an assistant prof at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, renowned that the study did not include women world Health Organization relapsed earlier five age. She added that doctors now much prescribe aromatase inhibitors to post-menopausal women when they are diagnosed, which could lead to an even smaller number of relapses after v years (USA Today, 8/13).

~ ABC's "World News" on Tuesday reported on the study. The segment includes comments from ABC News medical editor Timothy Johnson (Gibson, "World News," ABC, 8/12).


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As the weekend approaches, it's time to peek back on yet another action packed week in the domain of medicine � this time in pictures.


First up, let's start with Gigwise's grand unveiling of the Greatest Band Logos of All Time. Did your favourite group make the list? Well, CLICK HERE to bump out.


We besides unveiled our extensive retrospective of Metallica today, which takes a look at the ponderous metal bands whole vocation, right up until the arrival of 'Death Magnetic'.

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NEW YORK -- Warner Bros. has acquired rights to the book "Drink, Play, F@#K," the provocatively titled comedic male retort to the femme-centric best-seller "Eat, Pray, Love."

The soon-to-be-published "Play," by comedy writer Andrew Gottlieb, tells the fictional story of Bob Sullivan, a piece who, seeking solace later on his wife leaves him, goes on a bender in Ireland, takes a gambling jaunt to Las Vegas and a embarks on a sex-tourism trip to Thailand. Grove Press is scheduled to write the tome early succeeding year.

Gottlieb is a funniness writer wHO helped make "Z Rock," the satiric IFC series loosely based on the lives of rock stars that the network will debut this month.

Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" -- which is non officially connected to "Play" -- centers on the author's call for to find peace through various modes of living after she endures a painful split up. Gilbert takes a more delicate route in her hour of need, seeking culinary consolation in Italy, spiritual comfort in India and a romantic hiatus in Indonesia.

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The day-glo siblings - Nick, 16, Joe, 18, and Kevin, 20 - are currently supporting Avril Lavigne on her European tour but came close to overshadowing the headline act thanks to a scream-inducing set including their hits Mandy and SOS.

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