Restoring Dignity: The Struggle for Optimal Health Care in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508647355)

The United States spends more money on health care than any other industrialized nation, yet it ranks thirty-eighth in the World Health Organization's analysis of world health systems. Many Americans are uninsured, obesity is a national epidemic, and the very government that encourages people to eat fruits and vegetables subsidizes and gives free rein to GMOs and food companies that provide much of the nation's junk food.

Something, clearly, is very wrong.

After twenty years in both conventional and integrative health care, wellness expert Joan Lusco Gugerty has seen the US health care system change significantly, sometimes for the better, but often for the worse. Her experience and research suggest patients and providers both sense the need for change.

Restoring Dignity reminds us that we have forgotten what is essential for nurturing ourselves, both physically and emotionally. Gugerty offers a way to move forward from a culture of businesslike reactive treatment to one of compassion, where conventional and holistic medicine come together for the greater good and the creation of a sustainable, caring health care system. To do otherwise is to risk the health of an entire nation-both now and in the foreseeable future.