Can Medicine Be Cured

Can Medicine Be Cured by O'Mahony, Seamus. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781788544542.

A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now. Seamus OMahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be conquered ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that cant easily be measured, like compassion. A deeply fascinating and rousing book Mail on Sunday. What makes this book a delightful, if unsettling read, is not just OMahonys scholarly and witty prose, but also his brutal honesty The Times.