Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine

In this timely account of our health-care crisis, veteran primary-care physician Len Saputo, M.D., provides a diagnosis of America's biggest domestic problem along with a unique prescription for systematic reform. Saputo also unveils the inspiring story of his forty-year quest to heal our broken health-care system. The twentieth century brought us disease-care medicine, he argues, but the twenty-first century will witness the rise of integral-health medicine, a blended model that seeks the best-evidenced solutions from mainstream, alternative, and traditional medical disciplines alike, and that focuses on the cause of disease rather than just symptoms. Saputo also goes to the root political cause of our current dilemma: the domination of commercial values over our system, and our resistance to the inevitable future of medicine which will be preventive, holistic, integrative, patient-centred, and oriented to healing and wellness, not just high-tech treatments for disease.

About the Author :
Len Saputo, MD, a graduate of Duke University Medical School, is board certified in internal medicine, and was in private practice in affiliation with John Muir Medical Center for more than thirty years. After his awakening to the deep flaws in conventional medicine, Saputo developed a new paradigm that is now known as integral-health medicine. He founded the Health Medicine Forum in 1994, and went on to found and direct the Health Medicine Center in Walnut Creek, California, one of the first integrative clinics. He is the coauthor of Boosting Immunity: Creating Wellness Naturally; has edited six books, including Beating the Years and Boosting Your Digestive Health; and has authored book chapters and journal articles on numerous medical and health subjects. Byron Belitsos is a widely published journalist, author, and editor. He was educated at the University of Chicago and was an inaugural member of the Integral Institute.

Review :
"At last, here is a book about health care that asks the right questions--not "how" can we pay for medical treatment for all, but "what" treatment should we pay for; not "which" drugs should be used first, but "should" drugs be the first line of defense? Dr. Saputo provides much-needed answers to those burning health care questions currently in the news and before Congress."
--Ellen Hodgson Brown, JD
Author of "The Web of Debt" and "Forbidden Medicine" "Finally--the book to tell the whole truth about our ailing health care system and how to overhaul it. Len Saputo, MD, and co-author Byron Belitsos offer an honest and radically refreshing new strategy for reform."
--Meg Jordan, PhD, RN
Department Chair, Integrative Health Studies
California Institute of Integral Studies "The vision expressed in "A Return to Healing" stands out as exceptional--wise, workable, and utterly necessary to steer us from a disease-care model to an authentic, genuine, health care approach."
--Larry Dossey, MD
Author of "The Power of Premonitions "and "Reinventing Medicine" "Through his personal journey that began as a Duke University-trained MD and led to his being one of our most prominent integrative care practitioners, Len Saputo has seen it all. In "A Return to Healing", Len pilots us through our failing medical system and failing health to a brighter future of peak health and a system of health care that works."
--Lee Lipsenthal, MD
Author of "Finding Balance in a Medical Life""
"Past President of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine