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Pluck
"A GEM OF A BOOK." -Donald Berwick, MD
50 years ago a uniform organ donation law had not been enacted, the physician assistant wasn't a profession, bioethics wasn't a field, and emergency medical services was a hearse or a painted station wagon with a driver who had inadequate medical training, and 9-1-1 didn't yet exist.
From 1967 to 1976, Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler, a doctor and a lawyer, who are also twin brothers, collaborated on major decisions and laws which had multigenerational and lifesaving impacts in our country
✓ The transformation of emergency medicine from a wasteland to a vital component of health care
✓ The development of the universal state law (Uniform Anatomical Gift Act) authorizing organ donation and transplantation
✓ The birth of the brand-new physician assistant profession
✓ The emergence of bioethics as a core principle in healthcare today
In Pluck , the Sadlers share their extraordinary story of helping to create change in four different areas of healthcare in just nine years, while working at the National Institutes of Health, Yale University Medical School, The Hastings Center on Bioethics, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The book also highlights 15 lessons for catalyzing change that endure and are relevant today. Pluck will inspire, motivate, and educate the next generation who are committed to making positive changes in our world.
50 years ago a uniform organ donation law had not been enacted, the physician assistant wasn't a profession, bioethics wasn't a field, and emergency medical services was a hearse or a painted station wagon with a driver who had inadequate medical training, and 9-1-1 didn't yet exist.
From 1967 to 1976, Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler, a doctor and a lawyer, who are also twin brothers, collaborated on major decisions and laws which had multigenerational and lifesaving impacts in our country
✓ The transformation of emergency medicine from a wasteland to a vital component of health care
✓ The development of the universal state law (Uniform Anatomical Gift Act) authorizing organ donation and transplantation
✓ The birth of the brand-new physician assistant profession
✓ The emergence of bioethics as a core principle in healthcare today
In Pluck , the Sadlers share their extraordinary story of helping to create change in four different areas of healthcare in just nine years, while working at the National Institutes of Health, Yale University Medical School, The Hastings Center on Bioethics, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The book also highlights 15 lessons for catalyzing change that endure and are relevant today. Pluck will inspire, motivate, and educate the next generation who are committed to making positive changes in our world.
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200 pages, Kindle Edition
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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