Can Medicine Be Cured?
By Seamus O’Mahony,
Head of Zeus, 256pp, £20/$22
Even Jeff Bezos is going to die some time. So are we all, actually. And when that day comes, it sure as hell won’t be an algorithm that we turn to. All of us – the need for a priest aside – will want a good doctor. Even if, like Bezos, we are worth $100 billion.
What does that mean? In this humane, knowledgeable and scathing book (subtitled The Corruption of a Profession) about the dislocation of medical priorities from the basics of human need, Seamus O’Mahony gives us some pointers.
