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 school student. However after being approached by the authors’ PR agency with the promise of a…
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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 medical errors and his upcoming book about the need for more transparency in the healthcare system. Marty was…
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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 Permanente Medical Group in California and a contributor to this blog has written a primer on…
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