“I can’t remember reading a more courageous and original critique of what ails American medicine.”

—Malcolm Gladwell

HOW THE CULTURE OF MEDICINE KILLS DOCTORS & PATIENTS

Uncaring

Doctors are taught how to cure people.
But they don’t always know how to care for them.

Profits from Uncaring will be donated to Doctors Without Borders

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Praise for Uncaring

  • "No one is better qualified to write about what ails healthcare than Robert Pearl."

    Malcolm Gladwell Author of five New York Times bestsellers
  • "His insights are a must-read for anyone who wants to improve our healthcare system, and in so doing, provide better care and save lives."

    Lena Wen CNN Medical Analyst
  • "This rare under-the-covers view of medicine offers insights into tough issues that plague our system but also offers a path forward for improving healthcare."

    David J. Shulkin Former VA Secretary
  • "In Uncaring, Dr. Robert Pearl provides an X-ray examination of the medical profession and how it has both promoted and adversely affected American healthcare."

    Eric Topol Author of Deep Medicine
  • "In this riveting examination of physician culture, Dr. Pearl diagnoses the pathologies in the system that too often strips the 'caring' out of health care."

    Elsabeth Rosenthal Editor-in-Chief, Kaiser Health News
  • "In this hard-hitting, immensely valuable book, Robert Pearl pulls back the veil from the face of the culture of medicine."

    Donald M. Berwick Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  • "Uncaring is a brilliant and incisive dive into physician culture, both its seamy underbelly and the moments that inspire."

    Abraham Verghese Author of Cutting for Stone
  • "Dr. Robert Pearl's Uncaring is a deeply readable, empathic and insightful exploration of the status of 21st century American physicians."

    David Blumenthal President of The Commonwealth Fund

About Uncaring

Doctors are taught how to cure people. But they don’t always know how to care for them.

Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days. Patients are getting sicker and going bankrupt from medical bills. Doctors are burning out and making dangerous mistakes. Both parties blame our nation’s outdated and dysfunctional healthcare system. But that’s only part of the problem.

In this important and timely book, Dr. Robert Pearl shines a light on the unseen and often toxic culture of medicine. Today’s physicians have a surprising disdain for technology, an unhealthy obsession with status, and an increasingly complicated relationship with their patients. All of this can be traced back to their earliest experiences in medical school, where doctors inherit a set of norms, beliefs, and expectations that shape almost every decision they make, with profound consequences for the rest of us.

Uncaring draws an original and revealing portrait of what it’s actually like to be a doctor. It illuminates the complex and intimidating world of medicine for readers, and in the end offers a clear plan to save American healthcare.

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Robert Pearl, MD

Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group. Named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 most influential physician leaders, Pearl is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the author of the Washington Post bestseller Mistreated, host of the Fixing Healthcare podcast, and a regular contributor to Forbes.

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