So you haven’t actually read the book. Thanks for owning up to that.
Word choice means a lot, does it not? Before you termed the book “extremely biased” but now we have moved to “not a good representation of all physicians” based on what you’ve read/heard. Regarding that – a quote by Sinclair Lewis comes to mind. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Are you truly surprised that your pals object, would you have expected them to say anything different about how medicine (and implicitly them) practice?
Nor are physicians and the press monolithically rejecting the book.
*“Sandeep Jauhar is a compelling storyteller, and Doctored gives us a fantastic tour through the seedy underworld of American medicine.”
—Lisa Sanders, M.D., Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine, and author of Every Patient Tells a Story
Doctored takes us behind the façade and allows us to see the seamy underbelly. Jauhar’s gift is to observe and to beautifully tell the stories. In doing so he leads us to a visceral understanding of what has gone wrong. Doctored is a manifesto for reform."
—Abraham Verghese, M.D., author of Cutting for Stone
“Sandeep Jauhar specializes in peeling back the veneer, revealing the discomfiting truths of today’s medical world. He is unafraid to dig deeply and honestly, both within himself and within the medical profession. Doctored raises critical questions that twenty-first-century medicine must answer if it is to meet the needs of its patients as well as of its practitioners.”
—Danielle Ofri, M.D., Ph.D., author of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
“An extraordinary, brave and even shocking document. Dr. Jauhar’s sharply observed anxieties make him a compelling writer and an astute critic of the wasteful, mercenary, cronyistic and often corrupt practice of medicine today.”
—Florence Williams, The New York Times (Science)
"Jauhar takes a bit of a risk in using his own story to illustrate the many complex problems of early 21st-century American medicine. This beautifully written and unsparing memoir puts a human face on the vast, dysfunctional system in which patients and clinicians alike are now entangled. "
Suzanne Koven, M.D. book review in Boston Globe
“It’s not news, of course, that our medical system has become dysfunctional. But Dr. Jauhar’s personal account shows that brokenness on a human scale, starting with the doctor-patient relationship, which is in tatters. Dr. Jauhar doesn’t offer much in the way of solutions to the system’s ailments, but this thoughtful telling provides a service in itself.”
Susannah Meadows, The New York Times (Books)*