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Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Whiplash and Other Useful IllnessesContends that whiplash is nothing more than a neck strain that heals in a matter of days or weeks and argues that medical and legal professionals foster and create illnesses by dangling illusive fortunes in front of would-be claimants.
Full description- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published: 11 October 2005
- Format: Paperback 544 pages
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- Categories: Sociology: Work & Labour | Legal Skills & Practice | Legal Profession: General | Medical & Healthcare Law | Personal Injury | Medicine | Health Systems & Services | Forensic Medicine | Coping With Disability
- ISBN 13: 9780773529946 ISBN 10: 0773529942
- Sales rank: 269,251
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Full description for Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses
Whiplash is diagnosed so frequently that in the U.S. alone its annual cost is estimated at between 13 and 18 billion dollars. Up to 10 per cent of all whiplash "victims" are reported as permanently disabled. Andrew Malleson contends that whiplash is nothing more than a neck strain that heals in a matter of days or weeks and argues that medical and legal professionals foster and create illnesses by dangling illusive fortunes in front of would-be claimants. In an expose of how some health care and legal professionals prey on the anxieties and greed of their clients, Malleson argues that whiplash is only one of a long list of largely fabricated illnesses and injuries - such as fibromyalgia, repetitive strain injury, chronic fatigue syndrome, occupational back pain, chronic pain syndrome, and post-traumatic stress disorder - that drain resources from the health care system.
