"Trusting your doctor can be lethal. Dr Vernon Coleman, one of the world's leading experts, has defined 12 simple rules; each one of which could save your life. Easy to read, this could be the most important book in your life."
Dr Coleman's laws of medicine have been carefully formulated over 40 years of practising and writing about health care. Here's how Dr Coleman describes this book:
`However good your doctor is, and however much you may trust him or her, you must share the responsibility for your own health, and you must know when to tell your doctor if you think that the treatment with which he or she is providing you, could be causing problems. After all, if things go wrong, your nice friendly doctor is more likely to kill you than is a burglar a deranged relative or a drunken motorist. Remember: one in six people in hospital are there because they have been made ill by a doctor. I have built this book around ther twelve basic laws of medicine which I have, over the years, formulated for my own benefit as a doctor, an observer and a patient. I have illustrated each of the 12 laws with clinical anecdotes and scientific data.'
Here, for example, is Coleman's First Law of Medicine:
`If you are receiving treatment for an existing disease and you develop new symptoms then, until proved otherwise, you should assume that the new symptoms are caused by the treatment you are receiving.'
"The living terror of the British medical establishment." - Irish Times
Dr Vernon Coleman is the author of over 100 books - many of them international bestsellers. His books have sold over two million copies in hardback and paperback in the UK alone and have been translated into 25 languages. Dr Coleman has written columns and articles for many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines and has presented numerous TV and radio programmes based on his books. In the mid 1980s he devised the world's first medical software for use on home computers. For more information about Dr Coleman's books please see the Vernon Coleman page on Amazon or visit www.vernoncoleman.com
What the papers say:
Vernon Coleman writes brilliant books - Good Book Guide
The calmest voice of reason - The Observer
A godsend - Daily Telegraph
Brilliant - The People
No thinking person can ignore him - The Ecologist
Marvellously succinct, refreshingly sensible - The Spectator
Probably one of the most brilliant men alive today - Irish Times
King of the media docs - The Independent
Britain's leading health care campaigner - The Sun
Britain's leading medical author - The Star
Perhaps the best known health writer for the general public in the world today - The Therapist
The patient's champion - Birmingham Post
He's the Lone Ranger, Robin Hood and the Equalizer rolled into one - Glasgow Evening Times
A persuasive writer whose arguments, based on research and experience, are sound - Nursing Standard
The doctor who dares to speak his mind - Oxford Mail
He writes lucidly and wittily - Good Housekeeping
The man is a national treasure - What doctors don't tell you
Compulsive reading - The Guardian
His message is important - The Economist
Revered guru of medicine - Nursing Times
His advice is optimistic and enthusiastic - British Medical Journal
It's impossible not to be impressed - Western Daily Press
Outspoken and alert - Sunday Express
Hard hitting - inimitably forthright - Hull Daily Mail
Refreshingly forthright - Liverpool Daily Post
Dr Coleman made me think again - BBC World Service
Dr Coleman's laws of medicine have been carefully formulated over 40 years of practising and writing about health care. Here's how Dr Coleman describes this book:
`However good your doctor is, and however much you may trust him or her, you must share the responsibility for your own health, and you must know when to tell your doctor if you think that the treatment with which he or she is providing you, could be causing problems. After all, if things go wrong, your nice friendly doctor is more likely to kill you than is a burglar a deranged relative or a drunken motorist. Remember: one in six people in hospital are there because they have been made ill by a doctor. I have built this book around ther twelve basic laws of medicine which I have, over the years, formulated for my own benefit as a doctor, an observer and a patient. I have illustrated each of the 12 laws with clinical anecdotes and scientific data.'
Here, for example, is Coleman's First Law of Medicine:
`If you are receiving treatment for an existing disease and you develop new symptoms then, until proved otherwise, you should assume that the new symptoms are caused by the treatment you are receiving.'
"The living terror of the British medical establishment." - Irish Times
Dr Vernon Coleman is the author of over 100 books - many of them international bestsellers. His books have sold over two million copies in hardback and paperback in the UK alone and have been translated into 25 languages. Dr Coleman has written columns and articles for many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines and has presented numerous TV and radio programmes based on his books. In the mid 1980s he devised the world's first medical software for use on home computers. For more information about Dr Coleman's books please see the Vernon Coleman page on Amazon or visit www.vernoncoleman.com
What the papers say:
Vernon Coleman writes brilliant books - Good Book Guide
The calmest voice of reason - The Observer
A godsend - Daily Telegraph
Brilliant - The People
No thinking person can ignore him - The Ecologist
Marvellously succinct, refreshingly sensible - The Spectator
Probably one of the most brilliant men alive today - Irish Times
King of the media docs - The Independent
Britain's leading health care campaigner - The Sun
Britain's leading medical author - The Star
Perhaps the best known health writer for the general public in the world today - The Therapist
The patient's champion - Birmingham Post
He's the Lone Ranger, Robin Hood and the Equalizer rolled into one - Glasgow Evening Times
A persuasive writer whose arguments, based on research and experience, are sound - Nursing Standard
The doctor who dares to speak his mind - Oxford Mail
He writes lucidly and wittily - Good Housekeeping
The man is a national treasure - What doctors don't tell you
Compulsive reading - The Guardian
His message is important - The Economist
Revered guru of medicine - Nursing Times
His advice is optimistic and enthusiastic - British Medical Journal
It's impossible not to be impressed - Western Daily Press
Outspoken and alert - Sunday Express
Hard hitting - inimitably forthright - Hull Daily Mail
Refreshingly forthright - Liverpool Daily Post
Dr Coleman made me think again - BBC World Service
