Doctored
The Disillusionment of an American Physician

I usually love medical memoirs and he certainly raises some important issues (overtesting, overcharging, extending the end of life past the point of sanity), but the author is, excuse me, a whiny little bitch. He and his wife (also a doctor!) simply cannot make ends meet, and a huge chunk of the boo......more

This book helped me understand why U.S. health care is so mismanaged. It portrays a system where doctors have become cogs in a corporate culture of overtesting and other abuses. I appreciated the author's attempts to practice medicine with integrity, but it appears that is extremely difficult under......more

Don’t bother reading this. Instead, listen to this NPR interview (where I heard about the book) and call it a day. The book is mostly an exhaustive exercise in narcissism and whining, with Jauhar waxing poetic about financial ruin and family drama over and over again. I don’t want to dismiss his dif......more

Swinging by the 092s at Pasadena Central, this leapt out. I've read several wonderful books about the grueling lives of doctors, and I picked this up. Well written, honest, clear, analytical, he sees the dysfunction within himself and the medical field, and he comes to see resolutions. I'm not sure I......more

Well written, and he makes some good points. I tend to distrust the amounts of tests and procedures doctors want to do, and there's plenty of information here about how and why all the unnecessary stuff happens--profits and paychecks, of course. The author has an odd affect. He's extremely self-invol......more