BOOKS
Legacy
By Uché Blackstock MD
Dr. Uche Blackstock is both a compelling memoir and an edifying analysis of the inequities in the way we deliver healthcare. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician.
Publisher: Viking
The Language of Kindness
By Christie Watson
A nurses story. Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse providing vital care and kindness. Here she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets and her unforgettable patients.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Celiac Disease Cookbook for the Newly Diagnosed
By Rebecca Toutant RD
Getting to gluten free can be challenging and coming to terms with it, overwhelming. This is a creative and compassionate guide to help readers get “gluten free.”
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Magic Pill
By Johann Hari
A revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss and changing our world was we know it. Told from the author’s personal experience with Ozempic—the book also looks at how these drugs radically challenge what we thinking and know about weight loss, shame, willpower and healing.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
GUIDE
Canadian Guide for Community Care and Supports for Adults with Intellectual Disability Affected by Dementia
Intended to support a stage based approach to planning and preparation of dementia-capable supports and services for adults with intellectual disabilities across Canada, this guide is for adults, their families, staff and disability, health and seniors organizations.
reena.org/education
TED TALK
As healthcare professionals do we always know best?
By Leanna Luxton
Sharing her personal growth journey from well researched and learned practitioner to critical friend to her patients, Luxton asks her patients ‘if you reach these goals, will it be enough?’. She claims to have learnt to change her practice alongside her patients, adapting her tools and plans away from what she had been traditionally taught. Learning
that it’s not enough to lift a cup and putting it down. Living means being able to raise a toast at your child’s wedding.
