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By Nortin M. Hadler. 313 pp. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. $29.95. ISBN 0-7735-2795-8.

One of my favorite articles in the medical literature appeared in these pages a little more than a decade ago. "The Last Well Person" (N Engl J Med 1994;330:440-1) was an Occasional Note written by a Tennessee physician, Clifton Meador. It was a fictional scenario that was to take place in the not-too-distant future. The lone character was a 53-year-old professor of freshman algebra at a small college in the Midwest. Despite extensive medical evaluation, no doctor had been able to find anything wrong with him. But he was the only remaining person for whom this was true. Although it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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