Dec. 1, 2023Friday emergency medicineThe DO book club Emergency medicine The DO Book Club, December 2023: ‘Code Gray: Death, Life and Uncertainty in the ER’ As an emergency physician during the early months of 2020, the author draws back the opaque curtain on what was really happening and how frontline medical staff were sharing information. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
Nov. 1, 2023Wednesday The DO book club Patient-focused The DO Book Club, November 2023: ‘The Peter Principle,’ ‘How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection,’ ‘Aging Optimally’ and ‘This to Me’ Doctoring is a tough business, regardless of which specialty you practice. I chose these books because they might make caring for patients easier or at least more understandable. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
Oct. 2, 2023Monday The DO book club Meaning of life The DO Book Club, October 2023: Facing Death: Leo Tolstoy and ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ This novella remains a classic for narrative medicine, offering philosophical, religious, ethical and moral dilemmas and attempting to distinguish between right and wrong and good and evil. The DO Book Club By Tim Barreiro, DO
Sept. 1, 2023Friday artificial intelligencepatient careThe DO book club AI and medicine The DO Book Club, September 2023: “The Algorithm Will See You Now” J.L. Lycette, MD, imagines a future in which artificial intelligence (AI) has been so thoroughly integrated into the practice of medicine that an AI algorithm is making life-and-death decisions for patients. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
Aug. 1, 2023Tuesday business of health careThe DO book club Business inspiration The DO Book Club, August 2023: “Only the Paranoid Survive” and “The Ottava Method: Take Your Life Up an Octave” Both of these books are good reads as the lazy, hazy days of summer wind to a close and the crazy-busy days of fall and winter return to the fore. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
July 5, 2023Wednesday booksThe DO book club Mental health The DO Book Club, July 2023: ‘Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness’ William Styron’s book reminds physicians that understanding depression and its effects on patients, families and others is still in need of illumination. The DO Book Club By Tim Barreiro, DO
June 1, 2023Thursday addiction medicinedepressionThe DO book club THE PATH TO RECOVERY The DO Book Club, June 2023: “Long Walk out of the Woods: A Physician’s Story of Addiction, Depression, Hope and Recovery” The difficulty of accepting help, notifying his colleagues of his treatment and the struggle to find a job are thoroughly detailed in Dr. Hill’s moving memoir. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
May 1, 2023Monday The DO book club Durability through adversity The DO Book Club, May 2023: “Endurance,” “Practicing from the Heart” and “Uncaring” Perhaps if there is one quality that physicians would most benefit from it would be durability. We endure a lot to get where we are and to keep moving ahead, including much adversity along the way. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
April 3, 2023Monday The DO book club Beyond the diagnosis The DO Book Club, April 2023: “On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients” In this book, Weiner makes an eloquent effort to identify the challenges of practicing 21st century medicine and to suggest ways to engage with patients despite many inherent obstacles. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
March 1, 2023Wednesday The DO book club Diving into the lab The DO Book Club, March 2023: “STIFF,” “Cutting Out” and “ADHD: Quick & Easy Guide” In this humorously irreverent but never disrespectful work of creative nonfiction, Mary Roach dissects, if you will, the role cadavers have played throughout history. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA