{"product_id":"why-we-revolt-a-patient-revolution-for-careful-and-kind-care","title":"Why we revolt: A patient revolution for careful and kind care","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2018 Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence  In a series of brief and personal essays  Why We Revolt describes what is wrong with industrial healthcare  how it has corrupted its mission  and how it has stopped caring. Montori rescues the language of patient care to propose a revolution of compassion and solidarity  of unhurried conversations  and of careful and kind care.  In this brave book  Dr. Montori channels George Orwell to expose the corruption  and absurdity  of health care. Filled with compassionate and clear-eyed observations  Why we Revolt will leave you fired up  no matter what side of the gurney you are on  Julia Belluz  senior health correspondent at Vox.com. We revolt because our health  our very lives  matter. Why We Revolt does not serve as a blueprint but as an inspiration for patients and clinicians who are ready to pry open the idea of healthcare and make it about actual health and care. This book is a necessary catalyst for conversations that will revolutionize patient care  Kerri Sparling  diabetes patient advocate and creator of SixUntilMe.com. This marvelously optimistic book is an urgent and cogent call to action that is firmly rooted in direct experience of the harms inflicted  not only on patients but also on those who try to care for them  by the industrialization of contemporary healthcare  Iona Heath  medical doctor and writer  former president of the Royal College of General Practitioners. This profoundly humanistic examination of what has gone wrong in medicine has the diagnosis just right. This book is for everyone who will ever be a patient  for every health professional  and for every administrator and policy-maker  Gordon Guyatt  physician and researcher  father of evidence-based medicine. I went into medicine to interact with real  unique  emotive humans. Why We Revolt brings healthcare back to this primary love of and care for patients.  Sara Segner  medical student. Why We Revolt is a triumph. It speaks honestly and knowledgeably about the faults of industrial medicine  but with a deep understanding of caring and of the clinic. Montori  a doctor  citizen  and poet  has produced a wonderful and meaningful book that deserves widespread attention  Don Berwick  physician  former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services  and President Emeritus of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Kirkus review says  \"A thoroughly convincing  mobilizing  and supremely optimistic call to action for medical industry reform. A starred-review at Blue Ink says  Montoris call for a humanistic revolution is based on belief that reform is possible. Samuel Finnikin in the British Journal of General Practice wrote  Beautifully written  with an elegantly simple and though-provoking message  I recommend it wholeheartedly  and  once you have read it  pass it on to someone else. We need a change in health care  and this may be the answer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44960926564405,"sku":"ByrdShop_0999394819","price":35.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780999394816.jpg?v=1770393945","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/why-we-revolt-a-patient-revolution-for-careful-and-kind-care","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}