Portrait coming soon
Garrett Soames has spent nearly two decades in healthcare: in emergency and urgent care, through the COVID-19 response, in healthcare leadership, and in resource-limited clinics in Malawi, Africa.
The contrast was impossible to ignore: clinics abroad doing more with almost nothing, and a U.S. system spending more than anyone on earth while patients fell through the cracks. What he saw convinced him the system wasn’t failing by accident. It was working as designed, just not for patients.
He wrote Flatlined: How Profit Broke American Healthcare to diagnose the problem and lay out a path forward. But a book can only start the conversation. Garrett founded Patients Before Profit so readers, patients, clinicians and everyday Americans could move from frustration to understanding and action.
Flatlined explains how American healthcare got here: who sets the prices, why care gets denied, and why the richest country on earth gets less for its money. Patients Before Profit is the education and community initiative that grew out of the book.
Garrett speaks at town halls, book talks, conferences, classrooms and community forums. Tell us about your event, or request the press kit (EPK) with his bio, headshot and book information.
