From the author: Bone cancer in my cheek ended my career as an opera singer and brought me face to face with mortality, disfigurement, the meaning and uses of beauty—and a lot of left over pieces.
Read moreUncaring: How The Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients by Robert Pearl
In Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients (published by Public Affairs), Dr. Robert Pearl, a Stanford professor, plastic surgeon, and former chief operating officer of Kaiser Permanente, writes a well-documented panoramic narrative and insider view that demystifies the complicated healthcare system. His book offers a disturbing look at healthcare system that has lost its purpose. Pearl relates inefficiencies and slow changes, as patient centric views held by physicians and systems that have failed to adapt, both to cultural and individual principles, held so dearly for decades.
Read moreHEALING: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown, RN
Theresa Brown’s 2015 book The Shift explored the question of what it means to care for others. In her new memoir, Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient (Algonquin Books), Brown chronicles her experience with breast cancer from diagnosis through treatment and deepens that question into: How can we make the healthcare system more compassionate?
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