Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., M.A.C.P., M.A.C.R., F.A.C.O.E.M., is professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attending rheumatologist at UNC Hospitals. He is author of several books, including Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society and Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society.||Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., M.A.C.P., M.A.C.R., F.A.C.O.E.M., is professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attending rheumatologist at UNC Hospitals. He is author of several books, including Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society and Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society.
[Dr. Hadler] is a longtime debunker of much that the establishment
holds dear. . . . Reviewing the data behind many of the widely
endorsed medical truths of our day, he concludes that most come up
too short on benefit and too high on risk to justify widespread
credence. . . . Raise[s] serious questions.--The New York Times
[Hadler's] arguments are logical and make one think about the
status quo.--Milwaukee Academy of Medicine
[Hadler's] self-confessed 'diatribe against medicalisation' is an
engaging read.--Medical Journal of Australia
A withering critique. . . . [Hadler has] the knowledge, power, and
moral obligation to reject the false coin of commerce and
technological hype and to reassert the primacy of the patient.--New
England Journal of Medicine
An important book. . . . The reader will understand symptoms and
their causation and will be richer for it--intellectually and in
pocket.--Journal of Rheumatology
Challenging conventional medical wisdom, [Hadler] advises a healthy
skepticism about the benefits of drugs, routine tests, and many
common medical procedures. . . . Educate[s] [readers] on being far
better health-care consumers. . . . [A] provocative look at the
U.S. medical system.--Library Journal
Having guidelines for reimbursement that went through a Hadlerian
analysis is not a bad place to start reducing medical care costs
without reducing the quality of patient outcomes. A much more
politically attractive, and potentially quite effective, reform
would make it routine for patients to be exposed to Hadler's kind
of analyses whenever they are asked to consider any significant
medical intervention.--Journal of the American Medical
Association
This book challenges readers to alter their notions about health
maintenance, discarding beliefs about the efficacy of certain
medications, screening tests, and procedures. . . . This thoughtful
message from an experienced medical practitioner has merit and may
convince the general public to advocate more forcefully for
change.--ForeWord Magazine
This is recommended reading even if you are determined in advance
to despise it. You will be better off having wrestled with his
arguments and . . . probably will not find them easy to
refute.--Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
To change unrealistic expectations about longevity or lives without
pain or illness bucks vested interests, but that is what Hadler
does. . . . He knows that the changes he proposes are a long shot,
but when people demand that medicine stop doing unnecessary things
well, reform becomes possible. Recommended.--Choice
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