Well-researched, with powerful graphics and strong narrative threads, ESCAPE FIRE presents a comprehensive and complex case for how our American healthcare system has really become a disease-management business. From former top executives like Wendell Potter at CIGNA to pioneering physicians like Dr. Andrew Weil, influential individuals provide insight as to how the system has reached this point and what new measures have the potential to revolutionize our nationwide health. Perhaps most compelling, however, are the patients whose lives have been significantly affected by the system’s failings, some of whom are now offered new hope by doctors looking at wellness through a different lens. The case of Sergeant Robert Yates is particularly moving. After returning from combat with injuries, Yates became reliant on pharmaceutical drugs; an innovative new program supports his struggle to wean himself off the medication. Together, these powerful perspectives create an overwhelming argument that healthcare means more than a ten-minute office visit and that drugs are not the only way to treat an illness.  RS