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The Informed Patient columnist, Laura Landro, gives her five best book picks for the year.
“When it comes to books about health and medicine, the biggest sellers tend to focus on the latest diet or exercise craze and new ways to restore youth and beauty. This year, belly fat seems to be a big theme, with at least three books on losing it.
“But the best books that came across my desk in 2008 were those that illuminated the experience of being ill in America today, from the perspective of both the patient and the doctor, and an easy-to-understand guide to the workings of the human body. Also moving was a view from the inside of a health-care system that, for all its flaws, continues to strive in the interests of patients.”
Source: Wall Street Journal Online, December 2008
