By Andrew Weil"Rather than another advisor on healthy living, Weil's new book is a remarkably comprehensive brief for health-care reform. Three long-held American beliefs; the U.S. health care system is the best in the world, U.S. medical technology is that system's greatest asset, and U.S. medical schools and research facilities produce the best physicians and medical knowledge are now just myths, he says, as comparisons with other nations' health statistics and trends in domestic health confirm. Moreover, the system's costliness is bankrupting American business as well as the government. What is needed instead is a system in which doctors interact with patients much more than they do now; in which all citizens receive care; and in which insurance and care, the latter considered an art, not an industry, are affordable. The prevention of disease and the promotion of health should animate such a system, and if they entail legal restrictions on bad food similar to those on alcohol and tobacco, so be it. " (Booklist Reviews)
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