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Serious medicine or snake oil? New book Hype serves up what patients need to know

Dr. Nina Shapiro regularly encounters patients who have misinformed ideas about health.

And it’s easy to see why, considering everyone, doctors included, are constantly inundated with health information in the form of news media, studies and advertising.

“So much of it is not necessarily … wrong or false or fake, but it’s exaggerated and twisted a little bit,” she says….

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