BOOK: NON-FICTON Sue Robins, 'Ducks in a Row - Health Care Reimagined'

Ducks in a Row - Health Care Reimagined
Author Sue Robins
Paperback 256 pages, Standard Size Print

'Ducks in a Row: Health Care Reimagined' is for anyone who is unhappy with health care. This book shares wisdom and practical advice for those who rail against the status quo and yearn for authentic change.

'Ducks in a Row: Health Care Reimagined'  offers a refreshing shift from health care’s corporate model back to caring for each other as human beings. Drawing on the author’s work life in patient and family engagement, 'Ducks in a Row' describes a new health care world that includes storytelling, the arts, outreach and safe spaces for patient feedback.

Praise for Ducks in a Row:

'Sue Robins is the Ted Lasso of health care advocacy, with her big-hearted, aw-heck, can-do, relentlessly optimistic approach to tackling what ails the world of health care today. Pushing us all to the best versions of ourselves in and out of the boardroom, Robins’ latest book is a must-read for anyone who needs a real-deal coach to help them stay in the game to keep decency and kindness at the heart of health care. Kick your trainers off, grab a cup of coffee, open your heart, and read this book.'

• Wendy Looman, PhD, APRN, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota

'Ducks in a Row is a brave, optimistic and thrilling call to action. It is a manifesto and a guide for transforming our health care system that importantly offers personal permission for everyone to act differently, starting today, with love.'

• Donna Thomson, Caregiver Advocate, Co-author of The Unexpected Journey of Caring and Author of The Four Walls of My Freedom

Ducks in a Row is a love letter to a healthcare rehumanized and the plan to get all of us there. It is a book of stories. It is a manual for patient advocates and healthcare managers. Above all, Sue Robins’ book is a hopeful testimony of stubborn faith in people’s capacity to care.

• Victor Montori, MD, Mayo Clinic and Author of Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care

About the Author

Sue Robins is a health care activist, speaker and author. Her first book, 'Bird’s Eye View: Stories of a Life Lived in Health Care' is a poignant memoir of her experience as a caregiver and cancer patient.

In addition to her books, Sue has written for The New York Times, Canadian Medical Association Journal and The Globe and Mail. She is also Fellow with Dr. Victor Montori’s Patient Revolution.

She lives with her husband and son in the rainforest that is Vancouver, Canada.

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