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Upcoming – Spring 2025: Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

The Book Club will again present a selection by Marty Makary, MD, MPH. This book will show how experts in any field can develop blind spots, including medicine. Examples will involve peanut allergies, hormone replacement therapy, antibiotics, cholesterol, ovarian cancer, and the opioid crisis.  

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Publication – Journal of Pain publishes study from Dr. John Licciardone about the impact of shared decision-making on opioid prescribing for chronic pain

The November 2024 issue of Journal of Pain included a study by Dr. John Licciardone titled “Impact of Shared Decision-Making on Opioid Prescribing Among Patients with Chronic Pain: A Retrospective Cohort Study,” and included investigators from TCOM’s Class of 2026, Bassam Ballout, Yasser Bibi, Michaela Digilio, Rylan Fowers and Braden Van Alfen along with Subhash […]

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Fall 2024: The End of Medicine as We Know It: And Why Your Health Has A Future

This book by Harald Schmidt, MD, PhD, PharmD has been hailed as a visionary, provocative, and insightful perspective to the past, present, and future of medical science and clinical practice. Schmidt predicted that digitization will radically change healthcare delivery and lead to one of the greatest socioeconomic revolutions of mankind. From the perspective of systems […]

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March 2024: The House of God

This classic novel of life and death in an American hospital has been hailed as one of the most important medical novels ever written. The Lancet named the House of God by Stephen Bergman, MD (aka, Samuel Shem, MD) as one of the two most important American medical novels of the 20th century, and the New […]

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January 2024: Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference

This bestseller in the field of Health Care Administration by Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH and Anthony Mazzarelli, MD, JD provided a comprehensive and rigorous review of the science behind empathy and compassion. Their captivating stories from the front lines of medicine demonstrated that the human connection in health care matters in astonishing ways and may […]