chadkoh reviewed Better Now by Danielle Martin
Review of 'Better Now' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A very accessible book for people like me who do not work in the sector. I learned a lot about how (ideally) the system of patient-centric care we have should work, and she convinced me to be a believer in our public medical system.
The Six Big Ideas did include some acute solutions, but some of the others (eg. mincome) were so broad as to be unachievable. Like Piketty's Global Wealth Tax, sometimes offering up (politically) impossible solutions is just what people need to realize how intractable a problem is.
In one chapter Dr Martin makes supplications to the holy "innovation" of Silicon Valley, smacking of the solutionist thinking that I think has already fallen out of favour in other social projects. But it seemed more of an afterthought — an attempt to be current, or "innovative"? — and did not cast a pall over the other solutions, which seemed …
A very accessible book for people like me who do not work in the sector. I learned a lot about how (ideally) the system of patient-centric care we have should work, and she convinced me to be a believer in our public medical system.
The Six Big Ideas did include some acute solutions, but some of the others (eg. mincome) were so broad as to be unachievable. Like Piketty's Global Wealth Tax, sometimes offering up (politically) impossible solutions is just what people need to realize how intractable a problem is.
In one chapter Dr Martin makes supplications to the holy "innovation" of Silicon Valley, smacking of the solutionist thinking that I think has already fallen out of favour in other social projects. But it seemed more of an afterthought — an attempt to be current, or "innovative"? — and did not cast a pall over the other solutions, which seemed much more progressive.