White Coat Wisdom is all about altruism in medicine. And that is truly practicing smart medicine.White Coat Wisdom is all about altruism in medicine. And that is truly practicing smart medicine.  White Coat Wisdom is all about altruism in medicine. And that is truly practicing smart medicine.  White Coat Wisdom is all about altruism in medicine. And that is truly practicing smart medicine.                

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Awards for White Coat Wisdom

White Coat Wisdom is among excellent graduation gifts for doctors

"(This) ‘oral history’ is engaging in every case. Unlike ‘news-magazine’ television shows, where the interviewer’s goal seems to be to phrase questions in order to push their own agenda and to hear their own voice, with the physician guest barely getting a word in edge-wise, Mr. Busalacchi’s interview style is a light touch of questions, and while letting them speak as they will, their very human side emerges. His engagement with his subjects has a very natural cadence."
--Cynthia Hartline, LibraryThing
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Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 5-Star Review

"Busalacchi has mastered the ability to allow his subjects the floor, and the practice of medicine from the view of the dear and glorious physician is expressed with all the triumphs and tragedies that are part of that world."

 --U.S. Review of Books, May 2009

White Coat Wisdom Wins Three National Awards in 2009

1. Winner: Eric Hoffer Book Award, Health

"White Coat Wisdom endured rigorous judging and surpassed dozens of titles within its category. Each winner was determined to be unique, worthy and well produced in all aspects of writing and publishing."

2. Finalist, Montaigne Medal

Awarded "to the most thought-provoking title(s). These are books that either illuminate, progress, or redirect thought." 

3. Finalist, Indie Book Awards

"...to recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books in 60 different categories..."

4. White Coat Wisdom podcast honored for "innovative use of technology"
--Public Relations Society of America, 2008. See award.

   

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White Coat Wisdom makes for an excellent book for inclusion at palliative care conferences.

This reader comment is from the chapter featuring Philip Dougherty, MD, an internist who has experienced the good and bad deaths of many a patient over several decades of practice.

"I started reading your book last weekend and one chapter in particular became very relevant to my life.  

On Saturday my grandmother was rushed to the hospital with aspiration pneumonia and put on a ventilator.  She had a fall and closed head injury in late April and had just been moved from the rehab center where she wasn't making any progress to a nursing home on Friday. 

We chose to take her off the ventilator on Tuesday and let her "die right" at the age of 80 on Tuesday evening.

The chapter, Dying Right, helped me and my family members tremendously. 

Thank you for sharing your words with me..."

Reader, St. Louis, MO 

To listen to a free audio excerpt from this chapter, click "Dying Right."