May 31, 2024Friday 150 years of DOsAT Stillpatient careThe DO book club Life story The DO Book Club, June 2024: ‘Autobiography of Andrew T. Still’ As the profession celebrates 150 years of osteopathic medicine, here’s a closer look at the autobiography of A.T. Still, MD, DO. The DO Book Club By Katie Arvia
April 30, 2024Tuesday The DO book clubwomen's health Women’s health The DO Book Club, May 2024: ‘Perimenopause for Dummies’ Author Rebecca Levy-Gantt, DO, provides clear and useful information about perimenopause, the transitional time that is highly common yet little understood. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
March 29, 2024Friday DO & student voicesThe DO book club Diving in deep The DO Book Club, April 2024: ‘This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor’ Author Adam Kay shares dark, humorous and heartbreaking stories from his time spent as a junior doctor in the National Health Service in the UK. The DO Book Club By Tim Barreiro, DO
Feb. 29, 2024Thursday DO & student voicespracticeThe DO book club At the helm The DO Book Club, March 2024: ‘Go by Boat’ and ‘Island Medicine’ In his two memoirs, Chuck Radis, DO, writes about moving to a remote Maine island and the challenges he faced while trying to gain acceptance within the community. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
Jan. 30, 2024Tuesday self-careThe DO book club Redefining wellness The DO Book Club, Feb. 2024: ‘Real Self-Care’ Psychiatrist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, chronicles the challenges facing women in American society and presents a bold new approach to caring for oneself. The DO Book Club By Joan Naidorf, DO
Jan. 2, 2024Tuesday The DO book club Fit for life The DO Book Club, Jan. 2024: ‘Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity’ Peter Attia, MD, promotes a proactive approach to long-term health and offers strategies for staying healthy for as long as possible. The DO Book Club By Patrick Leary, DO, FACOFP
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