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Mendelsohn of chicago contemporary books, chicago, 1979. Confessions of a medical heretic was written in the late 1970s, a time when medicine bordered on religion. The title of this book is confessions of a medical heretic and it was written by m. Kudos to mendelson and other physicians that study deeper and are outraged at how a system that pretends to care, only robs you and makes you sicker.
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