Millennial Medicine

Attention, millennials: Before you know it, you will inherit the health care mess that previous generations have left behind. How will history judge you? Will it show that you made smart decisions to battle diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other diseases? Or will it show that you came and went, and nothing changed? In this book, the author examines why so many people continue to die from cancer, which President Richard Nixon declared war on in 1971. Half a century and billions of taxpayer dollars later, it continues to kill hundreds of thousands of people each year. Get answers to questions such as: • How have beliefs about medicine changed over time? • How can we understand the ontology of cancer? • How is our body like an automobile engine? • Why have we made so little progress in fighting cancer and other diseases? Other topics include DNA mutations, why cancer starts in the first place, thermodynamics and how it relates to