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Book Review: The First Step To Improve Health Care Is A Close Examination Of...
My friend and former Chair of the CFAH Board of Trustees, Doug Kamerow, has written a book that I think you will like. Besides being a mensch and witty as heck, Doug is a family doctor and a...
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Book Review: I Love You But I Don’t Trust You
Author Mira Kirshenbaum I Love You But I Don’t Trust You is national bestselling author, Mira Kirshenbaum’s, 11th book about healing relationships. I had the privilege of working with Mira when she was...
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Your Nagging Fitness Questions Answered With Scientific Evidence
I just finished reading a great little book called, “Which Comes First, Cardio Or Weights? Fitness Myths, Training Truths, And Other Surprising Discoveries From The Science Of Exercise” by Alex...
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True Medical Detective Stories: A Great Little Book
I just finished reading True Medical Detective Stories, Dr. Clifton Meador’s personal collection of medical mysteries. Dr. Meador is a prolific writer and the former dean of the University of Alabama...
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The Thrifty Patient: A Doctor’s Guide To More Affordable Healthcare
No matter the outcome of the presidential election this year, it’s likely that Americans will be spending more of their money on healthcare going forward. Dr. Davis Liu, a family physician at the...
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Unaccountable: A Book About The Underbelly Of Hospital Care
I met Dr. Marty Makary over lunch at Founding Farmers restaurant in DC about three years ago. We had an animated conversation about hospital safety, the potential contribution of checklists to reducing...
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Eat To Save Your Life: Another Half-True Diet Book
I am hesitant to review diet books because they are so often a tangled mess of fact and fiction. Teasing out their truth from falsehood is about as exhausting as delousing a long-haired elementary...
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The Spirit Of The Place: Samuel Shem’s New Book May Depress You
When I was in medical school, I read Samuel Shem’s House Of God as a right of passage. At the time I found it to be a cynical yet eerily accurate portrayal of the underbelly of academic medicine. I...
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Book Review: Is Empathy Learned By Faking It Till It’s Real?
I’m often asked to do book reviews on my blog, and I rarely agree to them. This is because it takes me a long time to read a book – and then if I don’t enjoy it, I figure the author would rather me...
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“Your Medical Mind” Explores Factors That Influence A Patient’s Medical...
Recently, I had a conversation with Shannon Brownlee (the widely respected science journalist and acting director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation) about whether men should...
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