Mark Vonnegut

They are making a movie of The Eden Express and doing a good job of it. This is the car they found. It still runs.
55 years goes by in the blink of an eye.

Boston pediatrician Mark Vonnegut on the problems plaguing the healthcare industry His latest book, “The Heart of Caring: A Life in Pediatrics,” is out now.

Dr. Mark Vonnegut laments the problems of today’s medical system in ‘The Heart of Caring’ - The Boston Globe “The job of the doctor is to take care of patients. We did a better job of it 40 years ago.”

Music soothes the soul.

Our job is to explain and make available what science knows and what it doesn’t know. Science was developed by and for all of us to produce the most good for the most people. That was a scientific reality, not some liberal pie-in-the-sky pipe dream. The current conflict between the money of medical care and the mission of medical care is a major public-health issue.

In pediatrics, and most medical care, if the doctor can just shut up and listen long enough, the patient will reveal the diagnosis. Unfortunately, there’s not a procedure code or template for how to shut up.

- Page 80, "The Heart of Caring"

There are more similarities than dissimilarities between taking good care of patients with Ebola and taking good care of patients with diabetes. The job of science is exactly the same: figure out what’s true and what’s not true and what can be done to help.

- Page 66, "The Heart of Caring"