The Community Cure

James Maskell

Imagine if there was a single, elegant solution to the biggest challenges facing healthcare: chronic disease, escalating costs, physician shortages, care access and affordability, physician burnout, loneliness, and mental health.

In his second book, James Maskell shows how community—specifically group medical visits—can help us solve these challenges. A supportive community provides the context for ongoing healthy behaviors, key to reversing chronic illness. By advocating for and facilitating group visits, those who are passionate about health transformation can shift the collective focus to prevention and root cause resolution.

The Community Cure is a comprehensive guide to group visits: how they originated, what they are, how to run them, how to avoid pitfalls and overcome challenges, best practices for launching and facilitating a group visit, as well as online and digital tools for ongoing support. This training manual empowers administrators, CEOs, staff, and healthcare providers to activate the future of medicine.

Press & Praise

Dallas Hartwig, New York Times bestselling author of Whole 30

"Finally, a book with a real solution to the epidemics of social isolation and loneliness."

Mark Hyman, MD, Head of Strategy and Innovation, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine

"Everyone in healthcare should read this book."

James Maskell

With the soul of an advocate and the mind of an entrepreneur, James Maskell has spent the past decade innovating at the cross section of functional medicine and community. To that end, he created the Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference with record-setting participation online and growing physician communities around the world. His organization and bestselling book of the same name, Evolution of Medicine, prepares health professionals for this new era of predictive, preventive medicine. He is an in-demand speaker and impresario, being featured on TEDMED, HuffPost Live, and TEDx, as well as lecturing internationally.


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