Putterman 2015 Materials

The 2015 Putterman Visiting Professor is David Loxtercamp MD.  David is not only a prolific author but converted his practice in Belfast, ME to a community health center and has developed a well-functioning medical home. His talk draws on a reading list which he sent along in advance.  If interested, you can peruse the list below and download the articles he has written in preparation for his visit.

Reading List for Putterman Lecture 2015: The Once & Future Family Physician
David Loxterkamp, October 6, 2015

The Information Tsunami

• Humanism in the Time of Metrics. David Loxterkamp. BMJ 2013; 347:f5539  19 September 2013      

Team Creep

• What a Doctor is Good For. David Loxterkamp. BMJ 2014;349:g6894 19 November 2014
• A Race Against Time Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How it Defines Our Lives. Sendil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir. Time Books, Henry Holt & Company, New York 2013
• Getting Ahead of Staying Behind: Reflections on Scarcity. David Loxterkamp. BMJ 2014;348:g2634 10 April 2014

The Medical Enclave

• Connected: How Your Friends’s Friends’ Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do. Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler. Back Bay Books, Little Brown & Company, Boston. 2009
• Fishing Upstream: Health & the Social History. David Loxterkamp. BMJ 2015;350:h2378  5 May 2015

Remembering the Story

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Atul Gawande. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Company,   New York. 2014
• The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Donald A. Schon. Basic Books, New York  1983
• “Complicating Relationships:” The Water Doctors Breathe.  David Loxterkamp. BMJ  2015;351:h4185    3 August 2015
• No Mission without the Marginalized: The Scope of Family Medicine.  David Loxterkamp. BMJ 2014;348:g1707  26 February 2014
• Treating Stella: The Story Comes First.  David Loxterkamp. BMJ 2014;349:g5281  24 September 2014