Gary D. VanderArk

“The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age.” Robert Wachter MD. McGraw-Hill. New York. 2015. 330pp. It shouldn’t take much to convince neurosurgeons that our conversion from paper to digital has been a disaster. Robert M. Wachter, MD, father of the hospitalist movement, documents how health care has fallen on its face...

“America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System.” Steven Brill. Random House, New York. 2015. 512 pp.Steven Brill is a brilliant journalist who has written for The New Yorker and TIME, but he is also a patient with a thoracic aortic aneurysm. He knows that our health-care system is broken, but...