After four decades of internal medicine, I applied the same diagnostic discipline I used on patients to the country I watched becoming ill. What I found was not a political crisis. It was a public health emergency.
Read the BooksA physician's diagnosis of democratic erosion across six simultaneous tracks — the political operation, the judicial pipeline, the Epstein network, the Russian operation, the tech oligarchs, and the capture of the press. Structured on the same model as Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On. Written in real time, as the events were happening.
Order on Amazon →Your Apple Watch called your cardiologist. Your Alexa filed a report. Your scale has been talking to your insurance company since Tuesday. A physician's comedic reckoning with the surveillance infrastructure we purchased voluntarily — and what it says about us that we did.
Coming SoonA free, printable voter rights reference card — what you need to know before election day, what the SAVE Act means for your registration, your rights at the polls, and who to call if you are turned away. Includes a wallet card insert. Free to copy, print, and share for non-commercial use.
Download FreeI spent forty-six years in internal medicine watching what happens when a patient's symptoms are ignored because no single symptom, on its own, seems like enough to act on. The disease progresses. By the time it cannot be denied, it is harder to treat.
I came out of retirement because I recognized the symptoms. Not a political crisis — those resolve at the next election. A public health crisis: the kind that requires intervention, sustained effort, and a population that understands what it is treating.
The medical framework in my books is not a literary device. It is the only framework I have ever trusted to tell the truth about what is happening to a patient. The country is the patient. The diagnosis is documented. The prescription is in your hands.
C.L. Auden is a pen name.
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