The Inconvenient Remedy

Read this dramatic account of one young doctor's attempt to challenge an old medical establishment and change a way of life. In the years before World War I, a disease devastates the poorer populations of the Deep South, and the US Public Health Service sends one of its brightest doctors to find a cure. But what the doctor finds is disturbing. This is not an infectious disease. Essential nutrients are missing from the diets of the victims, and many more southerners will succumb unless life-saving changes are implemented. What seems so obvious, yet Dr. Goldberger's report and is met with skepticism, ridicule and political obstacles. In this dramatization of actual events, Dr. Goldberger's wife recounts the extraordinary steps her husband takes to prove the deadly disease pellagra is not contagious but a preventable dietary condition. His dedication to his mission that requires long absences from their home strain the seams of their marriage. Still, he perseveres, counting on controversial experiments on prisoners and other volunteers to shed light on the truth. But time is running out.

• | Author: W. M. Goldberger
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 154 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1983680516
• | ISBN-13: 9781983680519