Stupid Reasons People Die: An Ingenious Plot for Defusing Deadly Diseases

Dr. John Corso's entertaining yet serious new non-fiction book, Stupid Reasons People Die, An Ingenious Plot For Defusing Deadly Diseases, illuminates why thousands of people die in the prime of life, from easily preventable causes, and how you can avoid becoming one of them. Most people do not know the scope of life-saving technology available to them, because it is not on their menu of medical benefits and may never be mentioned by their physicians. Vital tests and treatments too often remain unknown and unused. With stinging candor and wry humor, this page-turner lays out exactly which screenings and treatments you should consider and how to gain the control and knowledge needed to get the best that modern medicine has to offer. This book is a survival guide, a “get-smart, take-charge, how-to” book on diffusing your own medical time bomb. When someone dies before their time from heart attack, stroke, cancer, or other natural cause, it represents a failure on the part of the patient, the doctors, and the healthcare system to detect these diseases and intervene when they were easily curable. The book explores why we are failing so often, and it exposes the blind spots and traps inherent in our healthcare system, our culture, and in our own minds. It explains clearly what you can do to make sure you and your loved ones avoid them. It offers a logical yet radically different view from what most of us believe to be healthy vs. unhealthy and explores how we are focusing our efforts towards longevity on the wrong things. This is not another "eat-right, get-fit, lose-weight" guilt trip. Nor is it "twenty more secrets that your doctor doesn't want you to know." Engaging and comprehensive, you will learn the things that actually work. The state-of-the-art knowledge, imaging, medications and more, that identify and stop our most common killers before they can hurt us, all presented by a straight-talking doctor with two decades experience on the front lines of medical practice. Dr. Corso uncovers the obstacles we face in preventing needless illness or death: our widespread but outdated medical myths, our misunderstanding of sensationalized media and advertising claims, and an inert, gridlocked healthcare system which, when taken together, will confuse even the brightest people and interfere with effective management of their health. You will become immune to scare tactics meant to boost ratings instead of inform the viewer, and you will no longer be affected by advertising claims geared to sell product at all cost. This book cuts through the rhetoric and delivers the best in preventive health information. It saves lives. Stupid Reasons People Die first explores the peculiar relationship between emotion, language, and behavior and uncovers the power behind our most common medical buzzwords. It demonstrates how we behave more on the basis of subliminal feelings than on rational thought. For example, we see how the misguided notion that "all natural" means "all healthy" proves that a great marketing angle can have disastrous consequences. Enter the media and advertising industries coupled with our cultural love-hate relationship with technology, and we see how our confusion and fear over medical issues has become blinding. Finally, our impossible expectations of healthcare, insurance, and government entitlements are exposed and put to rest, allowing us to trade our dependent and passive relationships with these institutions for one that we can actively put to use on our behalf. Part two moves into specific medical issues, focusing on the diseases we need to seek out early and stop, and how we go about doing so. Explanations of heart attack, aneurysm, cancers of the colon, lung, prostate, breast, esophagus and bladder, the deadly effects of chronic sleep apnea, osteoporosis, and many more are presented in easy and enjoyable layman's language but in-depth enough to satisfy the demanding reader.

John Corso, MD has been practicing medicine for over 20 years. During that time, the healthcare system was steadily eroding the quality, time, and rewards of medical practice. No longer willing to compromise, Dr. Corso chose to take a radical step into the future by recreating the past. He designed a practice that offers patients the time, accessibility, and personal relationship that originally defined medical practice.Since 2001, his waiting room has been empty. While Dr. Corso serves hundreds of patients, he sees each one at the exact time of their appointment. In a relaxed consulting room, patients get 100 percent of his attention. They become "partners," informed and involved in determining the best measures for preserving or restoring their health.Dr. Corso, now spared the bureaucracy that burdens conventional medical practices, has time to thoroughly research new developments in medicine. He also volunteers at a local clinic, lectures, writes, and advises colleagues eager to transform their own practices, still keeping his wife and children at the center of his life. With his first book, Dr. Corso reveals the inside story about the small group of diseases most likely to cut our lives short — and why we are letting them get away with it.