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Uncared For

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Uncared For: A doctor’s insider guide to the overlooked cause of our health care crisis and how to cure it

Coming Soon, Summer 2023
 
In 1911 American health rejected the message of thoughtful and compassionate care prescribed by William Osler and leaped on the corporate-run road of number-chasing, protocols, and quick fixes as embraced by Abraham Flexner. 
 
This book sh
ows us why what you think is “necessary and lifesaving” often is not, and how you can save yourself from a system that’s gone off the tracks.  The authors are both primary care physicans who are immersed in the health care system and who have collected copious data to share with the reader about what works, what doesn't, and what we can do to help move our system to a better place.  The authors also share their experiences with COVID; both are front line physicians who our response to the pandemic through the lens of the Flexner-Osler split.

Extra Chapters

A dolphin and a lucky day Andy's medical education story

Alan's story

An Oslerian cardiologist

The cholesterol epidemic

The Flexnerian precision of predicting if you will break a bone

The future of Flexner, more numbers

The promise and perils of immunization

What if these drugs are bad

When there's no science behind an intervention

The Diabetes Epidemic

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