On Medicine as Colonialism

On Medicine as Colonialism details the sociopolitical realities that undergird health injustice and offers a realistic perspective on achieving health equity. --Jewel Mullen, MD, MPH, Dell Medical School, UT Austin A sobering diatribe on health care in America. --David N. Sundwall, former executive director of the Utah Department of Health Michael Fine wins his big-hearted argument that American medicine is colonialism, not just for the poor but for all of us. It is a desecration of our health care system by the same old robber barons. . . . This doctor-activist is pointing us to solutions. Everyone should read it. --Samuel Shem, author and professor of medical humanities, NYU Medical School Fine writes with the eye of both a humanist and a practitioner. . . . His passion for individual lives and concern for the common good is what drives his outrage at what has been wrought. --Christopher Koller, president of the Milbank Fund, from the foreword Michael Fine is one of the true heroes of primary care over several decades. --Dr. Doug Henley, CEO and executive vice president of the American Academy of Family Physicians As Rhode Island's director of health, Dr. Fine brought a vision of a humane, local, integrated health care system that focused as much on health as on disease and treatment. --U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Michael Fine has given us an extraordinary biopic on healthcare in America based on the authority of his forty-year career as writer, community organizer, family physician, and public health official. --Fitzhugh Mullan, MD