Nortin Hadler, Professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attending rheumatologist at UNC Hospitals. His most recent book is Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society, about backaches and the backache treatment industry in order to separate the helpful from the hype.

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