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A pair of doctors team up to illuminate, through neuroscience and captivating stories from their clinical practice, how serving others—and pitching in to the world in general—is a secret superpower.

If a doctor’s prescription could bring you:
- Longer life
- Better health
- More energy and resilience
- Less burnout, depression and anxiety
- More happiness, fulfillment and well-being
- More personal and professional success (including higher income)
- And, no harmful side effects

Would you take it?

In Wonder Drug, physician scientists Stephen Trzeciak, M.D., and Anthony Mazzarelli, M.D., illuminate, through neuroscience and captivating stories from their clinical practices, how being a giving, other-focused person is a secret superpower. Serving others—and pitching in to the world in general—is the evidence-based way to live your life. Kinder people not only live longer, they also live better. Science shows that serving others is not just the right thing to do, it’s also the smart thing to do.

Wonder Drug will make you rethink your notions of “self-care” and “me time,” and realize that focusing on others is a potent antidote to the weariness that so many of us feel in modern times. Getting outside of your own head, outside the swirl of self-concern that may dominate your mental chatter, is, ironically, one of the best things you can do for yourself.

Building upon their earlier work showing that, in the context of healthcare, having more compassion for patients is a powerful way to not only achieve better patient outcomes, but also promote well-being, resilience and resistance to burnout among healthcare workers, Trzeciak and Mazzarelli now extend their research to uncover how the power of serving others reaches far beyond the medical world and can be a life-changing therapy for everyone.

Wonder Drug relates to the varying meanings of giving in real people’s daily lives. The stories in this book will convince and inspire you to make simple prism changes. You don’t need a total life upheaval, just a purposeful shift in mindset. In fact, the crucial first piece of the evidence-based prescription is this: start small. Per science, the best way to well-being and finding your true fulfillment is this: scan your orbit for the people around you in need of help, and go fill that need, as often as you can.

ISBN-13: 9781250809049

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Publication Date: 06-20-2023

Pages: 336

Product Dimensions: 5.35(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.05(d)

STEPHEN TRZECIAK, MD, MPH is a physician scientist, professor and chair of medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, and the chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Trzeciak is a practicing intensivist and a NIH-funded clinical researcher with more than 100 publications. ANTHONY MAZZARELLI, MD, JD, MBE is an emergency medicine physician and co-president of Cooper University Health Care, as well as the associate dean of clinical affairs for Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I The Diagnosis: An Epidemic of Self-Serving 19

1 It's Not You, Its Me Culture 21

2 Survival of the Kindest? 38

3 The Giving Paradoxes 55

4 How Self-Serving Are You? 69

Part II The Cure: Serving Others 85

5 The Brain and Body When Serving Others 87

6 Physical Health Through Serving Others 105

7 Mental Health Through Serving Others 123

8 Happiness Through Serving Others 137

9 Success Through Serving Others 151

10 Motives Matter 174

Part III The Prescription: Seven Steps to Take Now 189

11 Start Small 191

12 Be Thankful 204

13 Be Purposeful 212

14 Find Common Ground 226

15 See It 243

16 Elevate 254

17 Know Your Power 266

Notes 279

Acknowledgments 301

Index 309

About the Authors 321