Health Insurance Key Issue in Presidential Debate

Oct. 3, 2012 - PRLog -- The presidential debate tonight will focus on many issues, not the least of which is health care. The cost in lives and money make health reform the most important issue before us. To truly understand what is at stake, White Coat Wisdom, by Stephen J. Busalacchi, asks physicians to candidly discuss the shortcomings of the health care system. The newly revised, award-winning oral history, White Coat Wisdom is now available.
   
"White Coat Wisdom is a compelling, enlightening, and skillful work of oral history," says Dave Isay, Founder of StoryCorps, heard on NPR. "An absolutely fascinating book. Studs Terkel would be proud!"

Most people have a family doctor, but how well do they really know him or her? In his boo, award-winning medical journalist Stephen J. Busalacchi introduces readers to physicians who discuss unique experiences with lessons for everybody. In doing so, readers receive practical advice for solving society’s and individuals’ intractable health problems. For graduates, it makes the perfect gift because these accomplished physicians offer excellent examples of how to succeed against long odds, accepting the fact that failure is often a necessary step on the way to fulfillment. The stories are poignant, inspirational and often unforgettable. After prom season, it’s graduation season, and this book makes an excellent gift.

"If you hope to understand what it means to be an excellent physician, the doctors in White Coat Wisdom provide gripping examples of their most excruciating and joyful experiences," says Michael Bliss, PhD, History of Medicine, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto.

White Coat Wisdom is about the grit necessary to overcome substantial obstacles and ultimately discover true fulfillment in one’s personal and professional life. And in the process of hearing how these doctors came to be, readers learn insights about medicine that will help them better their own lives.

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. 2nd edition, 6 x 9 hardcover, 474 pages, 48 illustrations. ISBN-13: 978-0-9794222-56; $35. See http://www.apollosvoice.com/Home/tabid/294/Default.aspx for a 300 dpi TIF of the cover and other information.