The Last Well Person

How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System

Nortin M Hadler author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:18th Apr '07

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Last Well Person cover

A controversial skewering of how doctors and the medical industry turn healthy people into patients.

"A brutal critique of much of what we do in medicine." New England Journal of Medicine "Like a veteran umpire, he calls 'em as he sees them. Much of what modern medicine advocates bears scrutiny, and Hadler examines it critically. Must reading for the public and for physicians." Journal of the American Medical Association "Hadler attempts to disabuse his readers of the pervasive and arguably mistaken belief that there is good evidence to support the broad application of such things as coronary artery bypass grafting for angina; cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood glucose monitoring; and screening for colon, breast, and prostate cancer." Canadian Medical Association Journal

ISBN: 9780773532540

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 432g

328 pages