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The Last Well Person
How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System
Nortin M. Hadler
"Hadler is a superb teacher. The reader learns to think independently and to reason critically about the many unsupported or unsupportable claims made on behalf of modern medicine, including much of modern pharmacology, surgery, and so-called alternative medicine. A must-read for both medical professionals and ordinary folk."-Arthur Schafer, director, Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of Manitoba
Are we all diseased time bombs? In The Last Well Person Dr Nortin Hadler argues that unfounded assertions, massaged data, and flagrant marketing have led to the medicalization of everyday life. He systematically builds the case that constant medical monitoring and unnecessary intervention are hazards to our health, severely reducing our quality of life. Sick with worry, we are a culture panicked by many illnesses-cardio-vascular disease, obesity, adult onset diabetes, fatigue, and breast cancer. Especially insidious, contends Hadler, is the misuse of longevity statistics in turning the difficulties experienced through a natural course of life, such as aging, back pain, and osteoporosis, into illnesses. He shows that the medical profession's current notion that such predicaments can be avoided is fatuous and self-serving. And he argues that most heart bypass surgery, mammography, cholesterol screening, and treatment to prevent prostate cancer should be avoided.
The Last Well Person helps readers assume responsibility for assessing their own health and avoid medical interventions that are unnecessary or cause harm. To be well, stresses Hadler, is to have the wherewithal to cope effectively with many of life's unavoidable challenges. In lucid prose and with understated humour, he offers his book as a guide to healthier living.
Nortin M. Hadler, MD FACP FACR FACOEM, is professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and attending rheumatologist, University of North Carolina Hospitals. He is the author of Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders.
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