This book is a must-read! I have read the author's newsletters and found them extremely informative so was looking forward to reading his new book and it does not disappoint! At the heart of this book is helping patients and doctors build a trusting open relationship. Given I am currently looking for a new doctor since mine just retired and am in the middle of dealing with aging parents and their navigation of the health care system, I got many great insights and tips about how to build that relationship. Some nuggets in this book - a JAMA Open Network Study showed that doctors while accurate at predicting likely outcomes of disease, they overestimate the benefits of medication. He is in no way suggesting to refuse to take medication, but rather as a patient we should be asking more questions about benefits, probability of improvement, studies conducted, side effects, etc. We all get led astray searching for the "one thing" that will "cure" us -- he suggests we hedge our bets and have a portfolio of options (for example could be a mix of western and alternative approaches as well as standard things like diet and exercise). The main point here is we need to create a health portfolio we can stick to. The other key parts of the book address scientific research and how to be a much more savvy consumer of this data -- who funded the study? Who did the research? Who and how many were the subject of the study (was it a small sample size?) Could the results be attributed to something else (correlation or causation?) Dr. Wilson writes with such candor and humility I found this to be an incredibly accessible read and as I mentioned, I personally got a lot out of it. I highly recommend this book.

Thank you to Netgalley and Grand Central Publishing for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I generally only leave reviews if I REALLY like/love a book that I would eagerly handsell, suggest. I read so many books, and most of them are solid three stars...meaning I wouldn't go out of my way to direct a customer to the book as a MUST DROP EVERYTHING TO READ THIS.
However, I would go out of my way to tell customers NOT to read this unless they are of the same political persuasion as liberals (which, surprised, NOT ALL BOOKSELLERS nor READERS are liberal!). And if they are liberal, than this book is not doctoring them (teaching them!) anything they don't already know or believe.
The first couple pages were good. Great conversationalist, story telling, etc. THEN, the author delves into politics and takes the normal side eye jabs at the Right.
I stopped reading, and find it ironic that author Wilson doesn't even take his own advice about trust, how it has been lost, and how to earn it back.