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Two things seem indisputable: American healthcare costs are irrationally inflated and Americans are not commensurately healthy. Nortin M. Hadler, M.D (The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System) has the requisite irreverence and skepticism toward medical providers and the healthcare labyrinth to write a clear-sighted appraisal of the current system’s failures and some sensible suggestions with which to protect ourselves from abuses of treatments such as mammography, colorectal screening, statin drugs, and coronary stents. —Robert Birnbaum, Jul. 7, 2008