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Dear (name), Things are heating up with the book. My publicist, Joanne McCall, and I are working furiously scheduling presentations, interviews, podcasts, book reviews, and articles to promote HAS MEDICINE LOST ITS MIND? – to be published on March 4. The formal launch will be at Chicago’s esteemed Seminary Coop Bookstore (5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.;

Dear (name), It has been a pleasure and an honor to be in touch with so many of you over the last year—and to learn about all the exciting things you’re doing. For this newsletter, I want to update you on what’s been going on with us aside from my book. After a cold month

Dear (name), Today, I address one of society’s great issues. Who decides what science does—the public or science? For example, the populace has taken control and been clear that it does not want science to create human beings in a laboratory or construct computers that run the world. Once Americans became informed of these potential

Dear (name), Our research at Michigan State led to an evidence-based patient-centered interview. Unfortunately, many inferred that such communication practices apply only in medicine. In this newsletter, excerpted from HAS MEDICINE LOST ITS MIND?, I’ll show how you can use these basic communication skills in everyday life. Best to call them person-centered skills, as Carl

Dear (name), I hope this finds you well and enjoying the beautiful Fall weather. All is well here in our new place in Battle Creek, Michigan. (See photos at the end.) Although previous newsletters gave hints of what HAS MEDICINE LOST ITS MIND? is about, this one provides an overview of its main theme and

Dear (name), I know we all understand “meaning” and “purpose” in our own lives—but here’s a new take on them. How Life Works—A User’s Guide to the New Biology (University of Chicago Press, 2023) by the former editor of Nature, Philip Ball, posits that meaning and purpose are fundamental biological phenomena in human beings because

Dear (name), I have just submitted the final edits for HAS MEDICINE LOST ITS MIND? The final proofs arrive in a few weeks. We’re getting there! Already getting lots of pre-publication exposure. The book justifiably praises biomedicine for its resounding successes, culminating in doubling of life survival from 1900 to the present, from 40 years

Dear (name), Just as I was about to send this Newsletter, the book cover (above) for HAS MEDICINE LOST ITS MIND? arrived. I wanted you and the rest of my email group to be the first to see it. Prometheus Books will publish the book in March 2025. For more detail, see my website: https://www.robertcsmithmd.com/.