The patient from hell: how I worked with my doctors to get the best of modern medicine and how you can too. Stephen H Schneider, with Janica Lane. Cambridge, Mass: Da Capo Press, 2006 (xix + 300 pp). ISBN 978 0 7382 1078 0.

When Doug, the father of a patient of mine, handed me this book, I should not have been so worried. I am a paediatrician and practitioner of evidence-based medicine; reading this has triggered me to reflect on my own thought processes and practice.