The Care Paradox: How First Principles Thinking Reveals What Healthcare Forgot

The Care Paradox: How First Principles Thinking Reveals What Healthcare Forgot

This is not a book of solutions, frameworks, or reforms. It is something rarer: A lens to see what we’ve stopped seeing. A language to question what we’ve normalized. A quiet reckoning with how far healthcare has drifted from its purpose, to heal. The Care Paradox is a reflective and provocative journey into the logic behind the system. Not its tools. Not its metrics. Its thinking . Malak Halawy draws on First Principles Thinking, the method behind scientific breakthroughs and transformative innovation, to peel back the layers of invisible assumptions shaping how we diagnose, treat, organize, and burn out. What if the problem isn’t just fragmentation, but a worldview that privileges control over care? What if doctors are still asked to carry a system they were never meant to hold alone? What if we’ve mistaken complexity for intelligence, and forgotten what healing actually looks like? This book isn’t here to fix healthcare. It’s here to start over, one question at a time. Whether you are a clinician, policymaker, patient, or system leader, The Care Paradox will change how you see healthcare, not as a machine to repair, but as a purpose to rediscover.