AN IDEAL choice for your next doctor’s appointment, this book will provide entertainment, useful health information and some reassurance while you wait to be called.
You’ll learn you do not have Ebola haemorrhagic fever, for example, by checking the list of dire symptoms. Bakalar provides many such lists and interesting snippets. Why is it, for example, that although the human body contains 10 times as much silicon as iron, no one ever takes silicon supplements?
If you happen to be waiting for a new organ, consider that 40,000 corneas, 16,000 kidneys and 6500 livers change hands every year. And, remarkably,…
