Why revolt

But often, he writes, in our haste to meet these targets and avoid their associated financial penalties , we lose sight of what , exactly is being measured, and why. Our job is to restore their rightful place at the center of the healthcare enterprise.

First, Montori says, we must change the very language of medicine. Another laudable goal worth fighting for, he writes, is the true democratization of health data: patients must wrest control of their own health information from those who have a vested financial interest in keeping it to themselves.

Part manifesto, part call to action, the book arrives at an especially propitious time: for the first time in decades, there exists a groundswell of support for alternatives to the current broken US healthcare system. Maybe, just maybe, the revolution is closer than we think. Competing interests : Akshay Pendyal has no relationships to disclose.

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It speaks honestly and knowledgeably about the faults of "industrial medicine," but with a deep understanding of caring and of the clinic. Montori, a doctor, citizen, and poet, has produced a wonderful and meaningful book that deserves widespread attention. A starred-review at Blue Ink says, "Montori's call for a humanistic revolution is based on belief that reform is possible.

Samuel Finnikin in the British Journal of General Practice wrote, "Beautifully written, with an elegantly simple and though-provoking message, I recommend it wholeheartedly, and, once you have read it, pass it on to someone else. We need a change in health care, and this may be the answer. Get the facts on complementary and alternative medicine.

Pavel Latushko, a former Lukashenko loyalist now on the protesters' Advisory Council, hopes this could allow Belarusians to count on help from both Brussels and Moscow to settle the current tensions. While Ukraine's protest movement built a huge tent camp in the center of Kyiv, complete with food delivery and security forces, the only perks for protesters in Belarus so far are bottles of water. Even to pay police fines, Belarusian protesters collect money themselves," analyst Alexander Klaskouski said.

That makes it even more remarkable that workers at state-run factories have joined this week's protests and strikes. The EU and U. Given that, the Kremlin can't easily portray Belarus' protests as a Western-backed effort to sow chaos in its backyard the way it could in Ukraine.

Russia used that argument to justify its annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine in a war that still simmers, six years on. But Russia's role in Belarus is pivotal, as the country's top trade partner and main military ally.

So far, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it clear to Germany and France that they should steer clear of any interference, but hasn't revealed how he wants to deal with the protesters or with Lukashenko, the only leader in the former Soviet space who's been in power longer than Putin himself.

Ukraine has been a cacophonous democracy for much of the 29 years since winning independence from the USSR, and Belarus is dubbed Europe's last dictatorship — but they share some similarities.