About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Date Published: 5-1-07
ISBN-13:9780773532540ISBN:0773532544
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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780773532540ISBN:0773532544
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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Date Published: 9/15/2004
ISBN-13:9780773527959ISBN:0773527958
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"Dr. Hadler is a smart as they come. The points he makes are well worth knowing, for both patients and providers. The problem is that he can't convey them effectively to either audience. His prose is too dense. He needs to write in simpler sentences and use simpler words. He could be called pompous. He doesn't refer to this work as a book. He repeatedly calls it a monograph.
The most important points he makes: the role of SES in disease, the impact of job-dissatisfaction on sense of well-being and ability to cope, and the medicalization of personality and character traits (the hyperactive, the depressed, and the obese are all "diseased" in today's medical culture).
As an aside, he also makes a brilliant arguement that if a trial has to be extremely large (thousands of patients) to have adequate statistical "power", then by nature it is detecting a very small treatment effect, in fact so small (~2% absolute change) that the results could easily have occurred by randomization error. In other words, if something (a drug, a treatment) really works, you only need a small trial to detect it. Be skeptical of large trials, especially when they only show small benefit.
Finally, patients have the right to know that many of the screening tests we (physicians) order are of dubious benefit. Some may be harmful. Why do we order them anyway? One reason: its easier to order the test then spend the time necessary to explain why it may be unneccesary. All this and more is this book, just be sure you have a dictionary handy."
"Probably too technical for a wide audience, but the information would be useful for anyone willing to plow through it. The healthcare system these days is a salse machine, and the buyer needs to understand what he is taking on."
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