by Nortin M. Hadler, MD, FACP, FACR, FACOEM
Now available for purchase at https://bit.ly/3sjmDnH, “The Last Well Person” argues that unfounded assertions, massaged data, and flagrant marketing have led to the medicalization of everyday life. Author Dr. Nortin Hadler, a professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, proposes further 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 asserts that most heart bypass surgery, mammography, cholesterol screening, and treatment to prevent prostate cancer should be avoided.
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