The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System by Nortin M. Hadler - What happens when your medical care is paid for by other peoples' money.

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 professions 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.

What happens when your medical care is paid for by other peoples' money.
This is a great, iconoclastic book.

This book isn't the easiest to read....it gets into many technical issues of research design etc.....this material is important for those who want to figure out if the author's conclusions are well founded on data and analysis (they are)....but the result is occassionally turgid reading. The effort to plow through these sections is well worth it!

Our doctors want to be thorough and avoid being sued.....
The companies that sell diagnostic tests and pharmaceuticals want to maximize profits.
The insurance companies (including "non profits" like many Blues) want to increase the size and power of their organizations.

So the system colludes in trying to convince us we need all kinds of tests, proecedures and drugs to fix our ailments....but first we have to be convinced we are sick patients who need their ministrations and products.

It is far too easy for us to accept all of this unaware of the perils this book powerfully exposes. After all, for most of us the costs for each additional test and prescription seems to be paid for (or heavily subsidized) by our employers and insurers...so why question the experts?

This book explains how to steel yourself against the dangers of letting the medical establishment turn us into fearful sickly patients when we really are robust healthy human beings facing the physical and emotional challenges that are the essence of living a full life.

Highly recommended!

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