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Health Behavior Change and Treatment Adherence: Evidence-based Guidelines for Improving Healthcare, 2nd Edition, by M. Robin DiMatteo, Leslie R. Martin, and Kelly B. Haskard-Zolnierek
February 2026 | Vol. 70, No. 1
By Samuel Garloff, DO, PCOM '78
This second edition publication lives up to its title: It is evidence-based. Although deceptively easy to read, it is for the serious and interested practitioner wanting to know how to best interact with patients to optimize treatment adherence and outcomes. Students of the Health Belief Model (HBM), dating back to the 1950s, will be quite pleased with this book.
Written by three university professors, the book is well-suited for self-study, discussion groups (such as a resident class), and classroom learning. Each of its nine chapters ends with “Tools for Self-study and Instruction,” learning objectives, review questions, prompts for discussion and further studying, and suggested reading. Additionally, each chapter ends with a comprehensive listing of references—a bibliophile’s dream.
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We Need You in the Locker Room: A Neurologist's Journey Behind the Scenes of Major College Football - By David Kaufman, DO
October 2025 | Vol. 69, No. 3
Written by Samuel Garloff, DO
Serendipity is seldom given the credit it is due. It is the proximate cause that led me to read this book. By a random act, I learned of the “One Team, One Health” initiative at Michigan State University, a proposal to combine the College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) and the College of Human Medicine (MD) into the College of Medicine, granting both degrees. I contacted Dr. Kaufman, founding chair of the Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology at MSU, to seek more information. We emailed back and forth, eventually reminiscing about our families and experiences. Doing this, I learned of his book.
If you are a football fan at any level of the sport, this book is for you. If you have no interest in the sport but treat, diagnose, or want to learn more about TBI: Concussions, Second Impact Syndrome (SIS), and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), this book is for you. It’s not simply a sports book, it’s not a medical text, it’s a mixture of both, including compelling character development and sometimes humorous, sometimes deeply personal experiences as the author shares his development from a newbie sports neurologist to become the consummate sports neurologist at MSU.
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