Author Talk: Dr. Lucy McBride — Beyond the Prescription - with Franklin Foer

Author Dr. Lucy McBride discusses their book "Beyond the Prescription" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.

A practical road map to become a more empowered patient and reclaim agency over your health.

As a primary care physician with her own healthcare struggles, Dr. Lucy McBride knows what it’s like to feel powerless—caught between a health care system that rushes through appointments focused on testing and prescriptions, and a wellness industry full of expensive false promises. She understands the frustration of transactional encounters, not knowing who to trust, and the sense that nobody sees you as a whole person.

In Beyond the Prescription, Dr. McBride offers a solution: a proven five-step process to help you take charge of your health and shift the locus of control from external checklists to your own informed decisions.

Lucy McBride, MD, is a primary care physician and co-founder of the Ackerly McBride Group in Washington, DC. For over twenty-five years, she has practiced evidence-based, relationship-centered medicine. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Medical School, with a master's degree in Pharmacology from Cambridge as a Fulbright Scholar, she completed her internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She writes the weekly newsletter Are You Okay? and hosts the podcast Beyond the Prescription. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and USA Today. She has contributed to CNN, MSNBC, and PBS, advocating for a holistic, patient-centered approach to health. A native Washingtonian, she lives in DC with her husband and is the proud mother of three grown children. You can find her work at lucymcbride.com.

McBride is in conversation with Franklin Foer, a staff writer at The Atlantic and former editor of The New Republic. He is the author of several books, including most recently The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family.

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