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Article: How to live with chronic illness.(BookCorners)(You Don't LOOK Sick!)(Book Review)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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You Don't LOOK Sick!
by Joy H. Selak and Steven S. Overman, MD, MPH
The Haworth Medical Press, 10 Alice St., Binghamton, New York 13904 USA; 800-429-6784
Softcover, c.2005, $14.95, 145 pp.
Chronic diseases are difficult to treat as they often involve, muscles, joints, and connective tissue, as well as the endocrine, nervous, and immune systems. These are modern, mostly "lifestyle"-related diseases, not curable by an antibiotic or any other drug. This population of patients is growing exponentially in the US.
Most of these patients are suffering from chronic degenerative diseases such as auto-immune dysfunction (Joy's ...