In this video, Michael Fitzpatrick puts forward his case for obsessive healthy living being the worst development in medicine today.

Michael Fitzpatrick has been a full-time general practitioner in East London for more than 20 years. He has written on a range of medical and political subjects, including AIDS, addictions and health scares, for both medical journals and the mainstream media. His books 'The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the regulation of lifestyle' and 'MMR and Autism: What parents need to know' are published by Routledge. His latest book, 'Defeating Autism: A damaging delusion' is due in the second half of 2008.

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