{"product_id":"making-the-cut-how-to-heal-modern-medicine-hardcover","title":"Making the Cut: How to Heal Modern Medicine - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAaron Kheriaty\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is a cure for medicine's ills, but it's going to hurt. Effective treatment, as every doctor knows, begins with accurate diagnosis. \u003ci\u003eMaking the Cut\u003c\/i\u003e is about what's going on in the house of medicine.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Medicine got sick. One in three people now distrust the healthcare system. Following the pandemic, two-thirds of Americans doubt medical scientists will act in the best interest of the public. We are grappling with an epidemic of chronic illness--heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, stroke, and chronic lung and kidney disease--affecting six in ten Americans, which medicine seems powerless to fix. The overall life expectancy of Americans has declined for the first time since the Great Depression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Not only are trust levels tanking, the number of doctors is dropping dramatically. Physicians are quitting in droves. One in five doctors will leave medicine in the next two years. One in three will reduce their hours. A doctor, we assume, wounds in order to heal. \"You're going to feel a sharp pain!\" she says, before making the cut. Today, though, all too often the doctor wounds without healing. Why? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In\u003ci\u003e Making the Cut\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, one of the country's leading public intellectuals and preeminent bioethicists, reveals what medicine gave him--and what it sometimes took from him. This book is about how he grew from an overconfident pre-med to an ambivalent medical student to a capable physician who had fallen in love with medicine--even if his lover has turned into a prostitute of late. While presenting a damning diagnosis of contemporary medicine, \u003ci\u003eMaking the Cut\u003c\/i\u003e also applies the wounding scalpel in order to heal it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Kheriaty, MD, \u003c\/b\u003e is a physician specializing in psychiatry and author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State\u003c\/i\u003e (Regnery, 2022). He is a Scholar and Director of the Program in Bioethics and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Dr. Kheriaty received his undergraduate from the University of Notre Dame, earned his MD degree from Georgetown University, and completed residency training in psychiatry at the University of California Irvine. For sixteen years he was Professor of Psychiatry at UCI School of Medicine and Director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health, where he chaired the ethics committee. While at UCI he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award three times by medical students. He also chaired the ethics committee at the California Department of State Hospitals for several years. Dr. Kheriaty has published over one hundred articles for professional and lay audiences on bioethics, public health, civil liberties, political theory, social science, psychiatry, philosophy, religion, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.2 x 6.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44808959164518,"sku":"9781510783522","price":44.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/J1qHVa87Fy9781510783522.webp?v=1771545308","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/making-the-cut-how-to-heal-modern-medicine-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}