Tuesday Talks
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About this event
Learn how to be your own best advocate in the doctor's office with Dr. Lucy McBride, M.D. Primary Care Physician and author of Beyond the Prescription: A Doctor's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Health
Book sales and signing will take place at 6:15 PM, the talk will start at 6:45 PM.
About the book
Beyond the Prescription: A Doctor's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Health : "In Beyond the Prescription, Dr. Lucy McBride explains why: Modern health care prioritizes transactions over relationships, screens over stories, and data over context. Into that void has stepped a massive wellness industry offering seductive promises of control--"optimize," "detox," "biohack"--often without evidence and with real risks. McBride refuses the false choice between conventional medicine and wellness culture. Instead, she offers a practical middle path built on health agency: the capacity to make informed decisions aligned with your values while advocating effectively for support. This book isn't prescriptive or perfectionist. It's a framework to help you navigate uncertainty, misinformation, and the realities of your life. At the center is a five-step process that moves you from redefining health on your own terms, through mapping your full health ecosystem and understanding how you personally approach care, to asking for help more effectively and making peace with what you cannot control"
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Location
Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, Washington, DC
Listed by DC Public Library. Details can change — check the official page before you go.