The only book to ever be officially endorsed by the acclaimed Academy of Comprehensive Integrative Medicine, No Doctors Required is a must-have guide for everyone wanting to take control of their health using proven, and in many cases cutting-edge, self-care approaches they can do on their own. Most of these health-boosting methods aren't even known by most doctors. The information in No Doctors Required has never before been compiled in a single volume. Drawing on the author's nearly 30 years of research as a noted lay health expert and the recommendations of 15 of the world's most visionary health experts, including Drs. C. Norman Shealy, Zach Bush, W, Lee Cowden, Stephen Sinatra, and Brad Nelson, No Doctors Required introduces readers to the 10 most essential keys necessary for creating excellent health, and then empowers them with how-to instructions for optimizing each of those keys in their own lives and the lives of their loved ones. Among the many benefits this book provides are: A listing of important medical tests readers can obtain on their own to quickly discover their current health status far more accurately than conventional medical tests are capable of showing. Techniques for discovering the best diet for their unique nutritional needs. A quick and effective self-test for discovering food allergies and sensitivities. A unique discovery that supports the health of the GI tract and provides rapid protection against harmful toxins, including glyphosate. A powerful 4- minute exercise routine that provides significant cardiovascular and strength training benefits without the need for equipment or trips to the gym. A powerful method to quickly and permanently heal unresolved emotions and beliefs and the physical health ailments they can cause. Multiple methods for achieving healthy sleep. Plus much more. Book Review 1: "I highly recommend No Doctors Required as an important resource that teaches readers how to quickly improve their health using the powerful self-care healing methods it shares." -- Dr. Joseph Mercola, Founder of Mercola.com Book Review 2: "No Doctors Required is a book that is very needed at this time when the medical system in the USA is becoming less and less capable of truly helping most patients. The practical knowledge and self-care methods Larry Trivieri Jr and over a dozen other acclaimed health experts share in this book can be easily implemented by readers to take command over their own health and well-being. Everyone who wants to understand, gain, and maintain good health will benefit from reading No Doctors Required and applying its life-enhancing principles to their lives." -- Elle Macpherson Book Review 3: "As a celebrity cancer survivor, health activist, and founder of the Cancer Schmancer Movement, I come in contact with countless authorities in the health space. Few doctors whose paths I’ve crossed are as brilliant at understanding the body as a system and supporting its ability to function at an optimal level than Dr. Lee Cowden. I have written everything down that he has recommended to me like gospel because I know what a medical genius he is! In No Doctors Required, Dr. Cowden and over a dozen other health experts share their expertise with Larry Trivieri Jr to guide you to better health through proven self-care methods most doctors know nothing about. Do yourself a favor and listen to them!" -- Fran Drescher

“A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician” that explores the doctor-patient relationship, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors’ emotions impact medical care (Boston Globe) While much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But understanding doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice can make all the difference on giving and getting the best medical care. Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Dr. Danielle Ofri examines the daunting range of emotions—shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, occasionally despair, and sometimes even love—that permeate the contemporary doctor-patient connection. Drawing on scientific studies, including some surprising research, Dr. Ofri offers up an unflinching look at the impact of emotions on health care. Dr. Ofri takes us into the swirling heart of patient care, telling stories of caregivers caught up and occasionally torn down by the whirlwind life of doctoring. She admits to the humiliation of an error that nearly killed one of her patients. She mourns when a beloved patient is denied a heart transplant. She tells the riveting stories of an intern traumatized when she is forced to let a newborn die in her arms, and of a doctor whose daily glass of wine to handle the frustrations of the ER escalates into a destructive addiction. Ofri also reveals that doctors cope through gallows humor, find hope in impossible situations, and surrender to ecstatic happiness when they triumph over illness.

A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk. No Apparent Distress begins with a mistake made by a white medical student that may have hastened the death of a working-class black man who sought care in a student-run clinic. Haunted by this error, the author—herself from a working-class background—delves into the stories and politics of a medical training system in which students learn on the bodies of the poor. Part confession, part family history, No Apparent Distress is at once an indictment of American health care and a deeply moving tale of one doctor’s coming-of-age.

Discusses how to avoid harmful medical mistakes, offering advice on such topics as working with a busy doctor, communicating the full story of an illness, evaluating test risks, and obtaining a working diagnosis.

Don Miller rolls over the conventional approach to Epilepsy with an automotive slant on a condition 2% of the World shares with him, he's had E, as it is sometimes called for 40 years and therefore knows something about it.

“Crammed with provocative insights, raw emotion, and heartbreaking dilemmas,” (The New York Times) First, Do No Harm is a powerful examination of how life and death decisions are made at a major metropolitan hospital in Houston, as told through the stories of doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators facing unthinkable choices. What is life worth? And when is a life worth living? Journalist Lisa Belkin examines how these questions are asked and answered over one dramatic summer at Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. In an account that is fascinating, revealing, and almost novelistic in its immediacy, Belkin takes us inside a major hospital and introduces us to the people who must make life and death decisions every day. As we walk through the hallways of the hospital we meet a young pediatrician who must decide whether to perform a risky last-ditch surgery on a teenager who has spent most of his fifteen years in a hospital; we watch as new parents battle with doctors over whether to disconnect their fragile, premature twins from the machine that keeps them breathing; we are in the operating room as a poor immigrant, paralyzed from a gunshot in the neck, is asked by doctors whether or not he wishes to stay alive; we witness the worry of a kidney specialist as he decides whether or not to transfer an uninsured baby to the county hospital down the road. We experience critical moments in the lives of these real people as Belkin explores challenging issues and questions involving medical ethics, human suffering, modern technology, legal liability, and financial reality. As medical technology advances, the choices grow more complicated. How far should we go to save a life? Who decides? And who pays?