Vernon Coleman: What the papers say:
Dr Vernon Coleman
`By the year 2020 there will be a holocaust, not caused by a plutonium plume but by greed, medical ambition and political opportunism. This is the latest vision of Vernon Coleman, an articulate and prolific medical author…this disturbing book detects diseases in the whole way we deliver health care.’ Sunday Times (1988)
`…the issues explores he explores are central to the health of the nation.’ –Nursing Times
`It is not necessary to accept his conclusion to be able to savour his decidedly trenchant comments on today’s medicine…a book to stimulate and to make one argue.’ – British Medical Journal
``As a writer of medical bestsellers, Dr Vernon Coleman’s aim is to shock us out of our complacency…it’s impossible not to be impressed by some of his arguments.’ – Western Daily Press
`Controversial and devastating’ – Publishing News
`Dr Coleman produces mountains of evidence to justify his outrageous claims.’ – Edinburgh Evening News
`Dr Coleman lays about him with an uncompromising verbal scalpel, dipped in vitriol, against all sorts of sacred medical cows.’ – Exeter Express and Echo
‘Vernon Coleman writes brilliant books.’ – The Good Book Guide
‘No thinking person can ignore him. This is why he has been for over 20 years one of the world’s leading advocates on human and animal rights in relation to health. Long may it continue.’ – The Ecologist
‘The calmest voice of reason comes from Dr Vernon Coleman.’ – The Observer
‘A godsend.’ – Daily Telegraph
`Dr Vernon Coleman has justifiably acquired a reputation for being controversial, iconoclastic and influential.’ – General Practitioner
‘Superstar.’ – Independent on Sunday
‘Brilliant!’ – The People
‘Compulsive reading.’ – The Guardian
‘His message is important.’ – The Economist
‘He’s the Lone Ranger, Robin Hood and the Equalizer rolled into one.’ – Glasgow Evening Times
‘The man is a national treasure.’ – What Doctors Don’t Tell You
‘His advice is optimistic and enthusiastic.’ – British Medical Journal
‘Revered guru of medicine.’ – Nursing Times
‘Gentle, kind and caring’ – Western Daily Press
‘His trademark is that he doesn’t mince words. Far funnier than the usual tone of soupy piety you get from his colleagues.’ – The Guardian
‘Dr Coleman is one of our most enlightened, trenchant and sensitive dispensers of medical advice.’ – The Observer
`Vernon Coleman is a leading medical authority and known to millions through his writing, broadcasting and bestselling books.’ – Woman’s Own
`His book Bodypower is one of the most sensible treatises on personal survival that has ever been published.’ – Yorkshire Evening Post
`One of the country’s top health experts.’ – Woman’s Journal
`Dr Coleman is crusading for a more complete awareness of what is good and bad for our bodies. In the course of that he has made many friends and some powerful enemies.’ – Western Morning News
`Brilliant.’ – The People
`Dr Vernon Coleman is one of our most enlightened, trenchant and sensible dispensers of medical advice.’ – The Observer
`The most influential medical writer in Britain. There can be little doubt that Vernon Coleman is the people’s doctor.’ – Devon Life
`The medical expert you can’t ignore.’ – Sunday Independent
`A literary genius.’ – HSL Newsletter
‘I would much rather spend an evening in his company than be trapped for five minutes in a radio commentary box with Mr Geoffrey Boycott.’ – Peter Tinniswood, Punch
‘Hard hitting...inimitably forthright.’ – Hull Daily Mail
‘Refreshingly forthright.’ – Liverpool Daily Post
‘Outspoken and alert.’ – Sunday Express
`The man with a mission.’ – Morning News
`A good read…very funny and packed with interesting and useful advice.’ –The Big Issue
`Dr Coleman gains in stature with successive books’ – Coventry Evening Telegraph
‘Dr Coleman made me think again.’ – BBC World Service
‘Marvellously succinct, refreshingly sensible.’ – The Spectator
‘The living terror of the British medical establishment. A doctor of science as well as a medical graduate. Dr Coleman is probably one of the most brilliant men alive today. His extensive medical knowledge renders him fearless.’ – Irish Times
‘His future as King of the media docs is assured.’ – The Independent
‘Britain’s leading medical author.’ – The Star
`His advice is practical and readable.’ – Northern Echo
`The layman’s champion.’ –Evening Herald
`All commonsense and no nonsense.’ – Health Services Management
`One of Britain’s leading experts.’ – Slimmer Magazine
`The only three things I always read before the programme are Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer, Peter Hitchens in the Mail and Dr Vernon Coleman in The People. Or, if I’m really up against it, just Vernon Coleman.’ – Eddie Mair, Presenter on BBC’s Radio Four
`Dr Coleman is more illuminating than the proverbial lady with the lamp’ – Company Magazine
‘Britain’s leading health care campaigner.’ – The Sun
`What he says is true.’ - Punch
‘Perhaps the best known health writer for the general public in the world today.’ – The Therapist
‘The patient’s champion. The doctor with the common touch.’ – Birmingham Post
‘A persuasive writer whose arguments, based on research and experience, are sound.’ – Nursing Standard
`Coleman is controversial but respected and has been described in the British press as `the sharpest mind in medial journalism’ and `the calmest voice of reason’. – Animals Today
`Vernon Coleman…rebel with a cause.’ – Belfast Newsletter
`…presents the arguments against drug based medicine so well, and disturbs a harmful complacency so entertainingly.’ – Alternative News
``He is certainly someone whose views are impossible to ignore, with his passionate advocacy of human and animal rights.’ – International Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
‘The doctor who dares to speak his mind.’ – Oxford Mail
`Dr Coleman speaks openly and reassuringly.’ – Oxford Times
‘He writes lucidly and wittily.’ – Good Housekeeping
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