Dr. Michael Fine is releasing a new nonfiction book “On Medicine as Colonialism”. We are excited and honored that Dr. Fine will be signing his book in person at
TigerEye Gift Shop on Sunday, February 19, 2023 between 2:30 and 4:30 PM. BaySpray LLC is organizing this event. Please join us and meet the author.
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at 768 West Shore Road, Warwick, RI 02889.
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Park on the street or across in the “Friends Way” parking lot.
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About the Book:
In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief. Hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors have all become tools of the new health profiteers. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world. Focusing on how health care profiteers co-opt the state’s regulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid to extract resources from communities, this book reveals how medicine and health care have become tools of a new health colonialism, turning medicine on its head, so that individuals and communities lose their agency, health becomes impossible, and profits are used to dismantle democracy itself.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Two Stories and A Definition
Chapter One: Medicine and Colonialism
Chapter Two: Hospitals
Chapter Three: Pharma and Pharmaceutical Retailers
Chapter Four: Specialists, Surgi-centers, Radiologists, Cardiologists, and Tests
Chapter Five: Administrators, Consultants, Lawyers, Doctors
Chapter Six: Primary Care
Chapter Seven: Insurance Companies
Chapter Eight: Research
Chapter Nine: Medical Colonialism as, well, Colonialism Itself
Chapter Ten: Covid-19
Chapter Eleven: Final Thoughts, Summary and Conclusions, and a Little About How to Fix This Mess
More about Michael Fine, MD:
Michael Fine, MD is a writer, community organizer, family physician, public health official and author of Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy – All at the Same Time and Abundance, a romantic thriller set in Rhode Island and in Liberia in the aftermath of the Liberian Civil Wars of 1989-2020. He is currently the chief health strategist for the City of Central Falls, RI. He is the recipient of the Barbara Starfield Award, the John Cunningham Award, and the Austin T. Levy Award.
Dr. Fine served in the Cabinet of Governor Lincoln Chafee as Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) from February of 2011 until March of 2015, overseeing a broad range of public health programs and services, overseeing 450 public health professionals and managing a budget of $110 million a year. Dr. Fine’s career as both a family physician and manager in the field of healthcare has been devoted to healthcare reform and the care of under-served populations. Before his confirmation as Director of Health, Dr. Fine was the Medical Program Director at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, overseeing a healthcare unit servicing nearly 20,000 people a year, with a staff of over 85 physicians, psychiatrists, mental health workers, nurses, and other health professionals.
He was a founder and Managing Director of HealthAccessRI, the nation’s first statewide organization making prepaid, reduced fee-for-service primary care available to people without employer-provided health insurance. Dr. Fine practiced for 16 years in urban Pawtucket, Rhode Island and rural Scituate, Rhode Island. He is the former Physician Operating Officer of Hillside Avenue Family and Community Medicine, the largest family practice in Rhode Island, and the former Physician-in-Chief of the Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals’ Departments of Family and Community Medicine. He was co-chair of the Allied Advocacy Group for Integrated Primary Care. He convened and facilitated the Primary Care Leadership Council, a statewide organization that represented 75 percent of Rhode Island’s primary care physicians and practices.
He currently serves on the Boards of Crossroads Rhode Island, the state’s largest service organization for the homeless, the Lown Institute, and RICARES. Dr. Fine founded the Scituate Health Alliance, a community-based, population-focused non-profit organization, which made Scituate the first community in the United States to provide primary medical and dental care to all town residents. Dr. Fine is a past President of the Rhode Island Academy of Family Physicians and was an Open Society Institute/George Soros Fellow in Medicine as a Profession from 2000 to 2002. He has served on a number of legislative committees for the Rhode Island General Assembly, has chaired the Primary Care Advisory Committee for the Rhode Island Department of Health, and sat on both the Urban Family Medicine Task Force of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the National Advisory Council to the National Health Services Corps.
