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Reviewed by Rosalba Mancuso for Readers' Favorite
Healthcare Warriors: Why and How to Become One by Dr. Ira Williams is a heartfelt and passionate account of the medical malpractice that has plagued the American healthcare system for many years. Thanks to her long experience in hospitals across the country, Dr. Williams witnessed the scourge of misdiagnosis, mistreatment, and needless deaths, which in the United States are the third leading cause of death after cancer and heart disease. The author is, in fact, a maxillofacial surgeon and anesthetist who primarily served at hospitals in South Carolina, her birthplace. When Dr. Williams witnessed medical malpractice cases firsthand, she didn’t hesitate to testify in trials against those responsible. However, her courage was never appreciated by judges, colleagues, or politicians.
Dr. Ira Williams’ Healthcare Warriors: Why and How to Become One is a valuable tool for gaining greater attention from governors, medical industry leaders, and federal committees. Only organized activism by a large number of “healthcare warriors” can attract the needed attention to reform a crucial system, perennially broken and regulated by a secret “code of silence.” Dr. Williams does so in language that is deeply personal and acutely journalistic. In the chapters, I have retraced all the vicissitudes that drove Dr. Williams to write her book. I also recognized myself as a patient who suffered misdiagnosis and medical negligence. Although the account refers to a local healthcare system, the perspective is fundamentally global. I felt particularly struck by Dr. Williams’ book, because it is a courageous and must-read testimony of a woman who didn’t lose the noble habit of asking herself “why?”
