The Last Well Person

by Hadler, Nortin M.

• ISBN13: 9780773532540
• ISBN10: 0773532544
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

Have you had it with celebrity gurus offering miracle cures? Are you sick of being treated like a diseased time bomb? Finally, someone has the courage to address the tough questions about our health care. In The Last Well Person Dr Nortin Hadler cuts through the medical white noise with his trademark tough love: Heart bypass surgery: Usually a waste of money, time, and energy, Treatment for prostate cancer: Does more harm than good, Testing for breast cancer: Not always effective, Chronic pain: See your therapist, not your pharmacist.

Author Biography

Nortin M. Hadler is professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology, University of Carolina at Chapel Hill, and attending rheumatologist, University of North Carolina Hospitals.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prologue	p. 3
The Methuselah Complex	p. 9
Interventional Cardiology and Kindred Delusions	p. 17
Fats, Fads, and Fate	p. 35
You and Your Colon	p. 65
Breast Cancer and How the Women's Movement Got It Wrong	p. 77
Prostate Envy	p. 92
Worried Sick	p. 101
Musculoskeletal Predicaments	p. 107
Medicalization of the "Worried Well"	p. 128
Turning Aging into a Disease	p. 146
Health Hazards in the Hateful Job	p. 166
Why Are Alternative and Complementary Therapies Thriving?	p. 177
Epilogue: A Ripe Old Age	p. 201
Annotated Readings	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 301
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