In Return to Healing we lay out a very simple fix to the medical mess we are in. We spend the first half the book explaining why it is a mess, and then the second half talking about who is profiting from the mess. Then we give the fix.

It's really very easy to repair a system that is simply off the tracks. We lay it out simply. This is one you don't want to miss!

Alan and Andy talk about how medical school does not prepare students to be whole-person doctors, focused on numbers and multiple choice answers and slices of the body. William Osler devised an ideal medical school at Hopkins before the Flexner Revolt took it down. In the Osler model students work with community primary care doctors from day one and throughout their entire medical school curriculum. They see patients and then learn the science behind the diseases and aspects of health they present with. We can easily fix medical school to produce doctors and not technicians, but it requires a knowledge that it is now very broken.

As two primary care doctors with a collective 75 years of experience, we understand the benefits of having a primary care doctor who develops strong relationships built on trust, who customizes care to each patient, who takes a patient-centric and whole-person view of care, and who is critical thinker looking beyond the protocols and drug-company dictated "truths." Multiple studies have shown that in areas with more primary care providers outcomes are better, people live longer, costs are lower, and patients are happier. That is because we're not paid for doing things to you--tests, procedures, drugs--but rather are paid to take care of you. We talk about how a primary care system would work.