TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Side Effects. How Our Healthcare Lost Its Way And How We Fix It</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 539 LP - 539 DO - 10.3399/bjgp22X721133 VL - 72 IS - 724 AU - Terry Kemple Y1 - 2022/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/72/724/539.abstract N2 - David Haslam Atlantic Books, 2022, HB, 304pp, £20.00, 978-1786495365David Haslam is uniquely placed to reflect on the important questions of modern health care.Born at the start of the NHS in 1949 he became a rural GP; Chair, then President of the Royal College of General Practitioners; President of the British Medical Association; and for 6 years, the Chair of the National Institute for Health Care and Excellence (NICE). He has a reputation for pithy observations about health care. He has also had his share of patient experiences — most recently cancer of his tonsil.He believes we need to be clear about what the focus of health care should be, and attempts to describe and address many of the problems of modern health care mostly in relation to higher income countries.The title suggests a thoughtful understanding of what has gone wrong and a plan for its improvement. This might ask … ER -