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(Madison) Michael Miller, MD, president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, is the featured guest in a series of weekly podcasts from the hardcover book, White Coat Wisdom, by Stephen J. Busalacchi. Dr. Miller has served almost 20 years as Medical Director of the NewStart Alcohol/Drug Treatment Program at Meriter Hospital. The audio excerpt from this Madison-based physician, twenty-three minutes long, will be available for free download on Monday, October 20, at www.whitecoatwisdom.com.
Doctor Miller discusses the extraordinary cost of not treating addictions, which are rampant in the U.S., and how stigma within American society and even with American medicine has prevented alcoholics and drug addicts from getting the help they need to recover. He furthermore explains the effectiveness of addiction treatment when done appropriately over two years.
With federal mental health and addiction parity legislation just signed into law, tens of millions of patients who suffer from addiction and other mental health illnesses should benefit from improved insurance coverage. The law bars commercial health policies from discriminating on co-pays, benefit levels and hospital stays and outpatient visits with respect to psychiatric and addictive disorders, as most do now.
The Miller podcast is part of a weekly program featuring excerpts from each of the thirty-six Wisconsin physicians profiled in the Dr. C. Everett Koop-endorsed hardcover oral history, White Coat Wisdom.
“A podcast is the perfect venue for giving people a flavor of what White Coat Wisdom is about,” said the author, Stephen J. Busalacchi, a former Wisconsin Public Radio reporter. “The beauty of oral history is you get to hear exactly what somebody said and how they said it, just like in radio,” added Busalacchi, who produced the podcast series.
Busalacchi has more than 25 years of experience in medical journalism. He has reported for National Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Radio, and has received more than two dozen journalism awards, in addition to public relations awards.
“Doctors' lives are always interesting, especially when the reader is allowed behind the curtain. White Coat Wisdom is a good read for anyone, but of course, of special interest to the growing number involved in health and medicine."—C. Everett Koop, MD, U.S. Surgeon General, 1981-1989.
White Coat Wisdom: Extraordinary doctors talk about what they do, how they got there and why medicine is so much more than a job, by Stephen J. Busalacchi. Original edition, 6 x 9 hardcover, 590 pages, 48 illustrations. ISBN-13: 978-0-9794222-
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