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Pluck: Lessons We Learned for Improving Healthcare and the World
"...Fred and Blair Sadler..., a tenacious lawyer-doctor team, share their inspiring quest to fundamentally change public policy and improve modern medicine." —BookLife Reviews
Pluck is for anyone who aspires to help improve the world around them.
As a doctor and lawyer, and identical twin brothers with a history of collaborative teamwork, Alfred and Blair Sadler wrote Pluck to share some of the most important lessons they learned on their journey, which began more than fifty years ago, helping to make major decisions that have had a multigenerational impact on healthcare in the United States.
Pluck brings together the spirit of courage, taking of roads-less-traveled, and living with a mindset focused on possibility that we can all call upon to improve everyday life. It inspires hope and collaboration, as well as meaningful change and action.
Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler, a doctor and a lawyer, who are also twin brothers, worked together on the early laws concerning organ donation and the first heart transplants, the emergence of the physician assistant profession, the birth of bioethics, and the creation of emergency medicine. In this compelling and stirring book, they take us on a fascinating journey through the National Institutes of Health, Yale University Medical School, The Hastings Center on Bioethics, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In Pluck, the Sadlers recall being in rooms where major changes occurred that have had multi-generational and lifesaving impacts on our country’s healthcare. They describe their roles in helping to lead and accelerate the pace and scale of needed change. The lessons they learned are enduring and relevant today.
Whether you are interested in healthcare, environmental activism, criminal justice reform, economic and racial equity, or education, transformation is possible with the help of the authors’ 15 lessons for catalyzing change that conclude their enriching book.
Pluck is for anyone who aspires to help improve the world around them.
As a doctor and lawyer, and identical twin brothers with a history of collaborative teamwork, Alfred and Blair Sadler wrote Pluck to share some of the most important lessons they learned on their journey, which began more than fifty years ago, helping to make major decisions that have had a multigenerational impact on healthcare in the United States.
Pluck brings together the spirit of courage, taking of roads-less-traveled, and living with a mindset focused on possibility that we can all call upon to improve everyday life. It inspires hope and collaboration, as well as meaningful change and action.
Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler, a doctor and a lawyer, who are also twin brothers, worked together on the early laws concerning organ donation and the first heart transplants, the emergence of the physician assistant profession, the birth of bioethics, and the creation of emergency medicine. In this compelling and stirring book, they take us on a fascinating journey through the National Institutes of Health, Yale University Medical School, The Hastings Center on Bioethics, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In Pluck, the Sadlers recall being in rooms where major changes occurred that have had multi-generational and lifesaving impacts on our country’s healthcare. They describe their roles in helping to lead and accelerate the pace and scale of needed change. The lessons they learned are enduring and relevant today.
Whether you are interested in healthcare, environmental activism, criminal justice reform, economic and racial equity, or education, transformation is possible with the help of the authors’ 15 lessons for catalyzing change that conclude their enriching book.
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236 pages, Hardcover
Published June 28, 2022
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July 1, 2022
The Introduction sets up scenarios of our worst nightmare accidents, and disasters, that could have been alleviated if only there were a doctor AND a lawyer present to save your physical life while avoiding a lawsuit for the Good Samaritan.
The idea of a tag-team physician/barrister Dynamic Healthcare Duo seems like fodder for a joke or simply impossible, unless you Read this true story of the Sadler twins, Dr. Fred Sadler and Attorney at Law Blair Sadler.
Fresh out of medical and law school the Sadlers tackled the health/societal/legal issues of the late-1960's and beyond that would diminish prosecution for any skilled individual to assist in dire emergencies.
I was surprised these two were public school educated, not prep-schoolers, who both earned academic scholarships. I love stories about regular Joe's/Jane's; Fred's/Blair's who find Greatness from within. Silver spooners, these men were not.
Frankenstein-ian organ harvesting of cadavers was a problem literally dropped in the laps of the Sadler twins in 1967. As a reader, and fan of all things CSI, I was hooked. You likely carry a card, or a designation on your driver's license in your wallet as a result of Fred & Blair's ethical research papers and presentations codifying organ donation.
If I share the famous names and moments, I'll be a spoiler. Assuredly, you will enjoy every moment of this journey into historically FAMOUS and infamous cases, subjects, political, and judicial offices and venues while wanting to know more. Gracious, and THEN what, Sadler Brothers???
Twins working together to tackle medical/legal/social issues we take for granted, with gratitude, today.
My take-away is two physically identical people share their individual strengths, courage, ideas in distinctly separate dialogues reminding me, reminding us, the will to persevere, to achieve, to succeed is within each of us.
It just takes PLUCK. ~
Kyle Elizabeth Wood
Historian
Author
The idea of a tag-team physician/barrister Dynamic Healthcare Duo seems like fodder for a joke or simply impossible, unless you Read this true story of the Sadler twins, Dr. Fred Sadler and Attorney at Law Blair Sadler.
Fresh out of medical and law school the Sadlers tackled the health/societal/legal issues of the late-1960's and beyond that would diminish prosecution for any skilled individual to assist in dire emergencies.
I was surprised these two were public school educated, not prep-schoolers, who both earned academic scholarships. I love stories about regular Joe's/Jane's; Fred's/Blair's who find Greatness from within. Silver spooners, these men were not.
Frankenstein-ian organ harvesting of cadavers was a problem literally dropped in the laps of the Sadler twins in 1967. As a reader, and fan of all things CSI, I was hooked. You likely carry a card, or a designation on your driver's license in your wallet as a result of Fred & Blair's ethical research papers and presentations codifying organ donation.
If I share the famous names and moments, I'll be a spoiler. Assuredly, you will enjoy every moment of this journey into historically FAMOUS and infamous cases, subjects, political, and judicial offices and venues while wanting to know more. Gracious, and THEN what, Sadler Brothers???
Twins working together to tackle medical/legal/social issues we take for granted, with gratitude, today.
My take-away is two physically identical people share their individual strengths, courage, ideas in distinctly separate dialogues reminding me, reminding us, the will to persevere, to achieve, to succeed is within each of us.
It just takes PLUCK. ~
Kyle Elizabeth Wood
Historian
Author
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