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Great ideas to promote a new vision for future medicine. Helps current medical practices explore methods into implementing a Functional approach to health. Focusing on a holistic and patient centered practice to promote lifestyle changes.

Big Hairy Audacious Goal. These four words pretty much sum up this book. In this provocatively thoughtful book, the author presents his research-backed case as to why the current healthcare practice needs to change. The solution given revolves around providing functional community care right where people live and I am a strong proponent of this approach. A must read for anyone alive today!

Very complete treatise regarding obesity, diabetes and other health problems related to the consumption of sugars, refined carbohydrates and refined oils. There are lots of recipes and diet suggestions that I do not really follow but others may find extremely helpful. I need the principles and then I do the rest. In this case I formulate my own diets and do not follow what others say.

The book is good and interesting. It wasn't entirely what I was expecting. It seems to be more directed toward someone who has a medical/holistic practice rather than someone like myself who is a "lay-person".

A rather uninteresting book touting the virtues of "functional medicine" over traditional practice but without much in the way
of any specific advice on how to transition to a functional medicine practice except by joining up with the author's on-line endeavors.
This is more of an "infomercial" than a than a book with any inherent value. There are many problems with our current health care
system, but "functional medicine" is destined to remain a niche concept that may help some people with some of their problems, but
is hardly the "Evolution of Medicine."

James Maskell's vision is empowering and inspiring. This is the book that I wish I had read 5 years ago when I was taking the leap from a traditional medical practice to a small integrative practice.

Maskell has succinctly laid out the steps necessary to take the leap - an invaluable resource to any practitioner who wants to reclaim their passion for medicine in and practice in a way that is equally profound for patient and doctor. James has protocoled what took me years and years of trial and error (and money!) to figure out. I highly recommend this book to any practitioner out there who wants to practice medicine in a more soulful and heart-filling way - this is the definitive guide.

This book is inspirational, especially with how healthcare is struggling and in need of change. He provides great suggestions and resources. The major flaw I will mention, and hopefully the author and Physicians see, is that this is addressed to doctors, taught in some med schools, but there was no mention of Nurse Practitioners. Many states allow Full Practice authority to NPs, and with less physicians going into Primary Care, I could only hope physicians realize how NPs can be beneficial to this model of care. I know the AMA is vocal against NPs, I hope this is not why the author only used the word doctor, rather than provider, and totally missed the boat of encouraging NPs to look into Functional Medicine, out of fear of the AMA. Direct Primary Care tends to also focus on doctors rather than providers, although I do find that arena more welcoming to NPs. Nurse Practitioners often already are dissatisfied with the current model of medicine & being so time restricted with patients, we tend to look at patients as a whole and incorporate psychosocial aspects to their care. Besides the slight of negligence to NPs, I do recommend this book! Of note, I do not mean to dismiss the importance of Physician Assistants, they definitely can play a role, but as of now, they do not have Full Practice authority like many states allow Nurse Practitioners to have. I do prefer the concept of team members in a practice rather than being the only provider, so do not forget the importance of members beyond the doctor.

As a conventionally trained physician who now enjoys what could only be described as the most meaningful, fulfilling, and beautiful vocation possible, I could not be more excited to share this book with all of my allopathic colleagues. James has provided a much needed framework for redesigning your clinical practice so that it offers you and your patients deep healing. He is uniquely positioned to have curated these resources with creativity, integrity, and an eye towards practical application. This is essential reading for any clinician who wants to make an impact. Join us!

I certainly hope that the future of medicine does not end up looking like Uber or CrossFit, like James proposes in his book. The Evolution of Medicine, which isn't written by a doctor but rather someone based in the field of economics, felt like an evangelical sales pitch to me. In a nutshell, the book puts functional medicine and technology up on a pedestal, while it simultaneously and repeatedly tries to sell his product: the Functional Forum. Micropractices in medicine have indeed made strides in a creative and patient-centered approach to healthcare--like James mentions--and technology has helped make small practices run more smoothly and efficiently for both practitioner and patient. There is cool and innovative stuff happening out there in private practices run by brave health care providers. But this book felt like it was marketing a utopia of healthcare for us docs that can only be attained by first purchasing the Functional Forum. It also kept repeating that the goal is not to cultivate celebrity doctors, while it had fun name dropping tons of celebrity doctors. I know that these doctors are pioneers, but I cringe when anyone tells me as a doctor to "be like him" or "be like her." I would have preferred to read firsthand accounts from these docs of how they set up a practice, in other words through a collaboration with the author in writing this book.

Finally, there was a quote in the book from a Chinese medical text that says: "The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness." I treat actual sickness, because lots of people are sick these days. I don't consider myself to be inferior. In fact, that quote would discount the whole functional medicine field as inferior, because I'm sure they're inundated with treating many chronic conditions (as the author mentions himself). There are helpful tidbits in here, but the book would have been better as a collaboration with different health providers sharing their journeys in starting private practice. Whether it's functional medicine, conventional medicine, lifestyle medicine, naturopathic medicine or some other related field, we always run the risk of looking too closely under the microscope of what's happening in the body and missing the forest for the trees. Maybe the mindset of doctors needs to change before their practices do. Sometimes we can act like we have all the answers and are just being such good people for providing a service that patients are actually paying for. Of course it can be a rewarding and fulfilling service to provide on so many levels, but it's also inherently a tough one both personally and professionally for all walks of practitioners. That being said, my favorite part about the book was when James described the direct primary care model of healthcare along with cooperative-style care. That is something I would want to get involved with.

I've studied functional medicine and cardiometabolic disease prevention for many years, and slowly integrated it into my family medicine practice, yet feel I'm not fully delivering what I know to my patients. I've even taken breaks from more training because I've been so frustrated with continuing to learn what I'm not actually using! James Maskell is making it practical to add the amazing diagnostic and treatment tools of functional medicine to day to day family practice, and more importantly, transform the business. He addresses the fear of the unknown that keeps many doctors like me stuck in our frustration with a limited allopathic approach to our patients, "Functional medicine is now easily repeatable and reproducible." I love his quote from George Addair, who was an important mentor to me: "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

When I went to medical school I thought, as a family doctor, I'd be working with a team of people to help people be well. Despite multiple efforts, I've found it difficult in an insurance model to add ancillary professionals to my practice. When James talks of "creating a team of synergistic providers" it reignites my vision and excitement.

This book is loaded with specific advice and information about vetted services and businesses to support a medical practice that truly serves its community, from unique insurance models, telemedicine, coaching and on-line sales to programs offered by successful functional medicine professionals. I'm grateful for the heritage and vision he is sharing, and I'll be studying his suggestions for many years!

Reform of healthcare has to start between the patient and doctor. Health creation will only happen when an engaged individual and her/his physician focus on, and make BEST lifestyle choices for nutrition and activity. It's time to stop practicing medicine via pharmacology alone, and treat etiologies of conditions instead of just symptoms. This book should be required reading for all first-year med students...

It is clear that conventional medicine is not working. It is great for acute illness (strep throat, cuts, trauma and so on) but not for diabetes, high blood pressure etc. Functional medicine treats the root cause of disease. However, changing to a functional medicine venue is not easy and income drops. This book helps the practitioner find ways to set up a functional medicine practice without dropping income drastically. A win win for both patient and provider.

James Maskell has taken every pain point suffered by the practice of medicine and every fear you may have of changing it and systematically provided a framework by which clinicians can take action in changing the face of healthcare, beginning with their own practice. With his inspirational message, you'll be able to follow a near step by step guide to follow your way into a kNew type of practice. One in which we not only can help heal our sick care system, but also one in which you, as the clinician, can follow the path of your own recovery from being a cog in the wheel of our massive and faceless medical-industrial complex to one in which listening, time for expressing real compassion and true health transformation can be created for all the patients for which you have the privilege to care. This book is long overdue and James is a wise and enlightened leader on the cutting edge of propelling this paradigm shift into existence. As a physician myself with a thriving functional medicine practice for over 4 years now, I can attest to the honor of getting to facilitate this kind of deep and lasting change for patients daily. If you thought you got into medicine to help people, but find yourself overworked, burned out and scrambling to keep up with someone else's bottom line, this book is for you. Grab a copy and come join us on this revolution.

Stephanie Daniel, D.O.
Functional Medicine SF

With the launch of his book, James Maskell invites us all into an entirely new conversation around healthcare. The Evolution of Medicine highlights the new era of medicine and looks at the mechanisms underlying the currently broken model of “symptom treatment” that leaves millions of Americans sick, exhausted an in pain every day. The Evolution of Medicine takes a cold hard look at the failure of the modern-day medical community to adequately embrace sustainable systemic practices to be viable and successful in a digital age where consumers are enlightened and educated far more than ever before.

This is a blueprint for ANY healthcare practitioner to create more impact, more revenue and more recognition as a leader in both specialty and niche – as well as in their various communities. It’s about time someone gave great doctors and healthcare practitioners a how-to outline for the digital age.

This book is more for doctors, clinicians who are in the health service business. It's more about how to change the way to conduct and organize the caring business. It makes much more sense than the way the health care insurance is doing to us.

I think I expected a roadmap or a reproducible system, but What is actually present is a few success stories and loose ideas about a reproducible system. This book is not enough to cause a revolution in medicine.

This book plugged me into an exciting vision and movement of what is possible in healthcare. What I liked most about it was that it gave actual implementation steps and examples of Doctors and practitioners that are already successful with this approach. Feeling more hopeful about the future of our planet after reading this

This book is an inspiration to the new generation of burned out exhausted doctors like myself to take action and do something to change things. It's time to start being a part of the solution to the many problems with our current healthcare system.