The Osteopathic Research Center established the TCOM Contemporary Issues in Medicine Book Club in 2023 to facilitate discussion of emerging trends in medicine. The Book Club is led by Dr. John Licciardone, Regents Professor. Since its inception, it has covered a variety of topics as listed below.

To learn more about TCOM Contemporary Issues in Medicine Book Club, please contact Samantha Johnson at samantha.johnson@unthsc.edu.

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

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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.

Sessions will be held on Wednesdays from 12-1pm:

February 5th

February 19th

March 5th

 

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

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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 medicine, he critically evaluated the state of organ-based medicine and chronic disease management, including the roles of Big Pharma and health insurers, and offered his vision for the future.

March 2024: The House of God

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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 York Times described it as “a raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon.” However, others have characterized it as an infamous illustration of the hidden curriculum of medical school, including heart-breaking examples of depersonalization in the delivery of medical care.

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

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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 actually help reduce medical costs.

Fall 2023: The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 And Beyond

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How can artificial intelligence impact the practice of medicine in the future? Peter Lee, PhD, Carey Goldberg, and Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD attempted to answer this question. Their book presented the potential advantages and disadvantages of using artificial intelligence in medicine, including how it may impact medical students and residents as they plan for careers in various medical specialties.

Spring 2023 The Price We Pay: What Broke American Healthcare and How to Fix It

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This book took a deep dive into rising medical costs in the United States, including medical debt. Marty Makary, MD, MPH, one of the nation’s leading health care experts, traveled across America and detailed why health care has become so expensive. The Price We Pay painted a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary challenged the medical establishment to remember medicine’s noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable.