Perhaps this pointer will help us bring about reforms of medicine that are urgently needed, and to change the course of pharmaceutical business into a path less damaging to our collective health. Educating physicians about and making them responsible for the damage they may be doing by prescribing would be part of the solution.

Despite the title and the subject matter, Martin Walker's book is not only for women. Every man who lives with a woman or loves one better read it lest he lose his love to the snares of doctor-induced (iatrogenic) illness. Readers will certainly be applying the lessons of this book to their own lives - be more careful when you next meet your doctor - and hopefully the essential message will spread like wildfire: Take your health in your own hands!

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This latest case involves Ellen Deutsch, who took the hormone replacement therapy - and its predecessor, Premarin - for a total of seven years and was eventually diagnosed with breast cancer. Deutsch, who lives in Livingston, NJ, a New York suburb, was 55 at the time she was diagnosed. Deutsch’s lawyers will argue that the drugmaker spent decades actively promoting hormone replacement therapy as a desirable, life-long menopausal treatment, but failed to sufficiently study the meds and, later, backpedaled on its claims before a government-funded study linked the drugs to cancer and heart risks.