PositiveThe New RepublicWhat do patients actually need from medicine? And what is the doctor’s role in delivering it to them? Kidia insists on the hybrid role of physician-advocate, duty bound to use their institutional authority to push for structural change in the wider world ... Makes an eloquent case for the practice of \'social prescribing,\' in which health care workers \'prescribe (sometimes via literal written prescriptions) social and structural resources\' ... In essence, Kidia has written us a prescription for more humanity, both at the structural and interpersonal levels ... As he shows over and over, there is no shortage of evidence that more humanity—whether in the form of time with friends and family, a connection to our community, or a welfare state that underpins a dignified life—is the cure for what ails us.
