University of Toronto Press
A Return to Healing
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Andy Lazris, MD, is a physician practising primary care and geriatric medicine in Maryland. As a Certified Medical Director, he orchestrates medical care and provides education for several long-term care facilities, frequently giving talks about health issues throughout the community. He is a Baltimore Top-Doc multiple years running and regularly writes op-eds and scholarly articles about our health care system, working to make it more sensible for patients and physicians. He has written multiple books, including Curing Medicare and, with Erik Rifkin, Utilizing Effective Risk Communication in COVID-19.
Roth Alan :
Alan Roth, DO, is a physician practising family medicine and palliative care in New York. He is chairman of the MediSys Health Network Department of Family Medicine and Ambulatory Care. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including “NY Magazine Best Doctor,” and was featured in TIME magazine as a Guardian of Healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is a professor of family medicine at NYIT’s College of Osteopathic Medicine and an assistant professor of social and family medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - PART ONE The Philosophy of Flexnerian Medical Care
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CHAPTER ONE Born from the Womb of Eugenics
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CHAPTER TWO The Road Taken: Flexner’s Legacy in the Modern World
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CHAPTER THREE Why So Much Medical Science Is Not Reliable
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CHAPTER FOUR Why Patients (and Doctors) Are Enticed by Flexnerian Logic
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CHAPTER FIVE Most of What We Offer Patients Is No Better Than a Pebble
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CHAPTER SIX Turning Pebbles into Boulders: How We Exaggerate the Benefits of What We Do
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CHAPTER SEVEN Numerical Epidemics
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CHAPTER EIGHT The Pitfalls of Screening for Diseases You Might Have
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CHAPTER NINE When Science Becomes Dogma
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CHAPTER TEN There’s an App for That!
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CHAPTER ELEVEN Whatever Happened to Common Sense?
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CHAPTER TWELVE The Drug Epidemic (It’s Not What You Think)
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN Flexner and the Care of the Elderly
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN Shared Decision-Making in a Flexnerian World
174 - PART TWO The Cogs of the Flexnerian Medical-Industrial Complex
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Foundations of Our Health Care Infrastructure
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Financial Ramifications of Our Medical-Industrial Complex
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Our Medical Education Quandary
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Dangers of Flexnerian Overspecialization in Medical Care
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CHAPTER NINETEEN US Insurance Companies: Bankrupting Our Nation One Sickness at a Time
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CHAPTER TWENTY The Power and the Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE In Medical Societies We Trust
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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Metric Mess of the Health Care System
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Hospitals: The Epicenter of Patient Care
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The Case for Primary Care
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE An Overlooked Legacy: The Impact of Flexner on Racial Divisions in Health Care
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Why We Are So Unhealthy and What We Can Do about It
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN The Path Forward
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Notes
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Books We Used
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Index
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