{"product_id":"making-the-cut-how-to-heal-modern-medicine","title":"Making the Cut: How to Heal Modern Medicine","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThere is a cure for medicine‚Äôs ills, but it‚Äôs going to hurt. Effective treatment, as every doctor knows, begins with accurate diagnosis. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMaking the Cut\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is about what‚Äôs going on in the house of medicine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Medicine got sick. One in three people now distrust the healthcare system. Following the pandemic, two-thirds of Americans doubt medical scientists will act in the best interest of the public. We are grappling with an epidemic of chronic illness‚Äîheart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer‚Äôs, stroke, and chronic lung and kidney disease‚Äîaffecting six in ten Americans, which medicine seems powerless to fix. The overall life expectancy of Americans has declined for the first time since the Great Depression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Not only are trust levels tanking, the number of doctors is dropping dramatically. Physicians are quitting in droves. One in five doctors will leave medicine in the next two years. One in three will reduce their hours. A doctor, we assume, wounds in order to heal. ‚ÄúYou‚Äôre going to feel a sharp pain!‚Äù she says, before making the cut. Today, though, all too often the doctor wounds without healing. Why?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Making the Cut\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, one of the country's leading public intellectuals and preeminent bioethicists, reveals what medicine gave him‚Äîand what it sometimes took from him. This book is about how he grew from an overconfident pre-med to an ambivalent medical student to a capable physician who had fallen in love with medicine‚Äîeven if his lover has turned into a prostitute of late. While presenting a damning diagnosis of contemporary medicine, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaking the Cut\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e also applies the wounding scalpel in order to heal it.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003eder-toggle=\"{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e ","brand":"Regnery Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50301845537053,"sku":"9781510783522","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781510783522.jpg?v=1756488556","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/making-the-cut-how-to-heal-modern-medicine","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}