Policy & Administration

Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences - even for the white voters they promise to help....

The New York Times best-selling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist ....

Author Cory Franklin, MD, who headed the hospital's intensive care unit from the 1970s through the 1990s, shares his most unique and bizarre experiences....

After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....

Michael Lewis’ taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19....

As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....

And the Band Played On is both a tribute to these heroic people and a stinging indictment of the institutions that failed the nation so badly....

Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American health-care system....

America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry....

David Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine....

Over the past 50 years, rates of autoimmunity and chronic disease have exploded. In this provocative book, Dr. Thomas Cowan argues for a direct causal relationship to a corresponding increase in the number of vaccines American children typically receive....

In Shock is a riveting first-hand account from a young critical care physician, who in the passage of a moment is transfigured into a dying patient....

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights....

An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics laid the groundwork for today's food revolution....

Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....

Building on the foundation laid by Moshe Feldenkrais, Thomas Hanna's groundbreaking work completely redefines the body's potential for withstanding decline. His gentle program for the mind and body proves once and for all that so many problems we accept as inevitable over time....

The Coming Healthcare Revolution identifies and describes five top-down macro forces and five bottom-up market forces that have sufficient strength to transform the US healthcare industry from the outside-in.

Down-to-earth and easy to understand, Caleb provides real-life cases to demonstrate not only what is wrong with the current medical system but to provide guidance for the patients who are lost and feel the same way. There is a better way. A new way. And soon there will be a new world of medicine....

A 'textbook with passion', Hardwiring Excellence offers a road map and practical how-to guide for creating and sustaining a culture of service and operational excellence....

Fifty-three percent of CPHQ candidates fail the exam. Here’s what successful test-takers do differently....

In The Great Healthcare Disruption, Dr. Marschall Runge—cardiologist, researcher, and CEO of Michigan Medicine—offers a gripping, insider’s look at the forces rapidly reshaping American healthcare.

The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....

In 2001, Virginia Mason Medical Center, an integrated healthcare delivery system in Seattle, Washington set out to achieve its compelling vision to become The Quality Leader and to fulfill that vision, adopted the Toyota Production System as its management method....

The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand - a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades - delivers the definitive book on the subject....