Off Label

Essays on Medicine Beyond the Usual Boundaries

von Arthur Lazarus

182 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Medicine doesn't exist in isolation. Neither should our thinking.

What can Star Trek teach us about medical education? What does a courtroom argument over three words in a psychiatric progress note reveal about clinical documentation? What happens when artificial intelligence improves its writing, reasoning, and persuasion-and perhaps even its capacity for deception? And what do rock and roll, cybersecurity, publishing scams, prediction markets, grave robbers, and a dancing surgical team have to do with medicine?

More than you might think.

In Off Label: Essays on Medicine Beyond the Usual Boundaries, psychiatrist and author Arthur Lazarus draws ideas from places where medicine does not ordinarily look and puts them to unexpected use.

In pharmaceuticals, off-label means using a medication beyond its approved indication. Lazarus applies the same idea to thinking. He draws on law, history, technology, popular culture, ethics, education, artificial intelligence, economics, and his decades in medicine to ask what each field can reveal about the profession.

The result is a provocative collection of essays about medicine at its borders-and about what happens when those borders shift.Among the questions explored:

- Can AI augment physicians without undermining the very judgment that medicine depends on?- What happens when professional titles obscure rather than clarify expertise?- Have efforts to control opioids crossed the line from clinical guidance into interference with medical practice?- What does modern medicine owe to patients whose experiences are hard to grasp?- When healthcare institutions fail, who safeguards patients' trust?- Amid algorithms, bureaucracy, corporate pressures, and accelerating technology, how can medicine preserve the compassion and relationships at the heart of patient care?

Topical, argumentative, personal, occasionally mischievous, and unwilling to stay within the usual lanes, Off Label is written for physicians, medical students, clinicians, healthcare leaders, educators, patients-and anyone curious about what medicine looks like from outside its own walls.

The topics may come from anywhere. The indication is medicine.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174844841
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published