Most people would consider a knife wound to the stomach a serious health risk, but a similar scalpel wound in an operating room is often shrugged off. In <i>Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs</i>, Dr. Harvey Bigelsen explains how today&rsquo;s medical doctors overprescribe surgery and ignore its long-term health implications. Any invasive medical procedure, he argues&mdash;including colonoscopies and root canals&mdash;creates inflammation in the body, leading to serious and long-lasting health problems.<br><br>Inflammation, according to Dr. Bigelsen, is the real cause of all chronic disease (persistent or long-lasting illness). Noting that Western medicine has yet to &ldquo;cure&rdquo; a single chronic disease, Bigelsen points to a new paradigm: one that treats each patient as an individual (rather than as a set of symptoms), avoids further damage to the body through surgery, and looks for the root cause of chronic disease in past damage done to the patient&rsquo;s body&mdash;whether caused by a bad fall or a scalpel. Provocatively written and radical in its approach, <i>Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs</i> challenges readers to rethink everything they believe about illness and how to treat it.