“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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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 Both parties blame our nation’s outdated and dysfunctional healthcare system.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.
About Pearl
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.
