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 moreWords We Cannot Say by Sita Romero
Sita Romero’s debut novel Words We Cannot Say offers a true and unflinching look at pregnancy and hardship. The story is told through the lives of three different women as they navigate the struggles of friendship, motherhood, pregnancy and loss. Though the women seem to be entirely different, their lives connect in organic and often overlooked ways.
Read moreHEALING: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown, RN
Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown was published by Algonquin Books in April 2022.
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?
Read moreThe Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander
In The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town, writer Brian Alexander takes a deep look into the continued validity of these statements in today's healthcare arena.
The Ohio native and author of the award-winning Glass House, which zeroed in on the decline of the once-thriving factory town of Lancaster, centers his narrative on individuals affected by the corporatization of America. He follows Phil Ennen, CEO for 32 years of Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, as he attempts to keep his small hospital in Bryan, Ohio, open for business. There’s more than just healthcare at stake, as Alexander underscores:
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"The hospital was special. It wasn't only a community asset in the legal sense; it was a community glue, a community economic powerhouse, a community source of employment, a community lifeline."
Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Quite Mad is at once a well-organized history of mental illness, especially with regard to women, an examination of the role of the illness narrative, and a fascinating memoir of a woman’s struggle.
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