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PUBLISHED BOOKS

The NHS. Our Sick Sacred Cow

September 2023

This is an exposé of a medical profession in the UK. Why is it dysfunctional, and why is the NHS failing to provide effective medical care for UK citizens and become unfit for purpose?

One reason is that traditional medical culture in the UK has been eroded and replaced by the corporate culture of executives with MBAs. It is they who now direct what nurses and doctors are allowed to do for patients.

Fifty years ago, when the NHS was rightly revered, it was doctors and nurses who dictated to bureaucrats what they needed to serve patients.

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How to Become Heart-Smart

November 2023

A User’s Guide to Heart Health and Heart Disease Prevention.

Have you ever witnessed the devastating impact of heart disease or a stroke on a loved one?

If your Mum or Dad have heart disease, you have a 4:1 chance yourself of getting the same.

Learn how to detect heart disease really early, and how to protect yourself and your family.

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WHO LOSES WINS (March 2024)

Winning Weight Loss Battles: A ‘Fit Mentality’ versus a ‘Fat Mentality’

The calories we eat, and the calories we use while exercising, are the focus of every book on dieting and slimming, but typically, one key topic is missing - mentality. What drives some of us to become overweight and to fail repeatedly to lose weight, and what drives others to be slim, fit and athletic. Without suppressing our 'Fat Mentality', every weight-loss strategy is bound to last only a short time.

Psychologically, we all have a 'Fat Mentality' and 'Fit Mentality'. These two components of our eating and exercise mindset co-exist, and are forever in opposition. The 'Fat Mentality' promotes our inactivity, self-indulgence and weight gain; our 'Fit Mentality' drives our desire for activity and the disciplined control of everything we do. Because they direct what we eat, and what exercise we choose to do, they will affect our body weight.

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Doctors, Nurses & Patients (May 2024)

How to Survive Medical Practice

In the first chapter, I describe 120 caricatures of doctors and nurses, together with many pertinent and amusing anecdotes, some of which are deadly serious.

In the second chapter, I describe 70 patient types of patient, together with many illustrative anecdotes.

In the third chapter, I explore the interrelationship between patients, doctors and nurses, and how they relate to medical bureaucracy. This is important now that it affects the morbidity and mortality of patients and the working conditions of nurses and doctors in the UK.

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THE ART & SCIENCE OF MEDICAL PRACTICE (Sept 2024)

Many practical tips about how to practise medicine

This book contains many practical tips about how to practise medicine, judged as successful by patients. These tips result from 55-years of medical practice experience, using both its art and science; its judgement tools, methods and creative processes, rather than anonymous, check-box ticking algorithmic processing. Everyday medical practices save lives and reduce suffering, but with problematic cases both independent thought and creativity are often necessary.

Scientific medicine has provided us with many indispensable tools, but it is the art of medicine that defines how best to use them to fulfil our patient's needs.

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EAT TO YOUR HEART’S CONTENT (Aug 2005)

The diet & lifestyle for a healthy heart

HEART SENSE (Sep 2007)

How to look after your heart

Live and learn, learn and live.

Heart disease is our number one killer, so my message to all middle aged people living in the western world is this. Find it before it finds you!

Having analysed food for nutrients with evidence for their beneficial and adverse effects, I wrote 'Eat to your Heart's Content' and 'HeartSense' as a less technical, paperback version. Both books answer the questions:

1. How do I choose foods that are good for my heart and circulation? There is more to it than fats in food.
2. How can I detect heart disease early? (Most people think that blood cholesterol provides the best early detection test for heart disease - they are wrong). Learn which tests are best.
3. How can I survive our major silent killer - artery furring or atherosclerosis? What causes it, and how should it be treated. The role of smoking, alcohol, exercise, sleep and stress is discussed.

Here are just a few of my conclusions:

1. Detecting artery 'furring' (atherosclerosis) should be part of every screening examination, and is essential for anyone thought to have coronary artery disease.
2. Sunflower oil is better for you than olive oil.
3. Exercise will half your chance of heart disease.
4. Smoking doubles your chance of heart disease.

Forget the ever-changing hearsay about food and lifestyle issues - learn the facts.