An evening with Dr.Fine

1 New England Tech Boulevard,East Greenwich RI 02818

23 February, 2023

Description

Award winning author and community organizer Dr. Micheal Fine is joining New England Tech Management Department for a special evening. Dr. Fine will be discussing his new book Medicine as Colonialism. He will discuss how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world. Dr. Fine will also is the Co-Founder, board, and vice chair of Scituate of health alliance. Dr. Fine practiced for 16 years in urban Pawtucket, Rhode Island and rural Scituate, Rhode Island. He was the Physician Operating Officer of Hillside Avenue Family and Community Medicine, the largest family practice in Rhode Island, and was Physician-in-Chief of the Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals’ Departments of Family and Community Medicine. He was co-chair of the Allied Advocacy Group for Integrated Primary Care. He convened and facilitated the Primary Care Leadership Council, a statewide organization that represented 75 percent of Rhode Island’s primary care physicians and practices. He currently serves on the boards of the Lown Institute, Crossroads of RI, RICARES and the Scituate Health Alliance. Dr. Fine is the author of Health Care Revolt, an expose, manifesto and playbook that exposes the failures of the health care market to deliver health and plans a movement to build the health care system the US needs (PM Press, 2018); Abundance, a novel about two young Americans caught up in the Liberian civil wars of 1998-2003 (PM Press, April 2019) The Bull and Other Stories (Stillwater River Press, 2020) and Rhode Island Stories (Stillwater River Press, 2021). He is the coauthor, with James W. Peters, of The Nature of Health (Radcliffe, 2007), a study of healthcare services, human rights, society, technology, and industry; and The Zero Calorie Diet (Red House Press, 2010), a look at the culture of excess through the lens of fasting. The Bull and Other Stories was the 2021 IPNE Literary Fiction Book of the Year.