Be A Health Architect: Evolve Your Practice
Be A Health Architect: Evolve Your Practice
The book that started the Health Architect movement.
Part memoir, part manifesto, A New Oath is a philosophical yet practical guide born out of the burnout and moral injury reshaping modern medicine.
Drawing on real stories and offering useful tools, the book calls on clinicians and leaders to move beyond coping and start rebuilding—with a new oath to clinical practice and life.
It’s more than a prescription; it’s a blueprint for a new kind of healthcare, one rooted in resilience, purpose, and human connection.
Burnout and moral injury have redefined medicine. Quick fixes and wellness slogans aren’t enough.
A New Oath offers something different: a transformative framework for clinicians and leaders to reclaim meaning and rebuild the systems that sustain care.
“Powerful writing highlighting the many challenges practicing physicians face in our efforts to put our patients first. A New Oath is greatly needed to enable us to reconnect to why we became healers in the first place. Dr. Ramnath offers a framework to find meaning and joy in our professional and personal lives. Highly recommend this book to anyone who cares about improving our healthcare system.”
– Gastroenterologist Physician and Executive
A New Oath offers a new path for physicians trying to navigate our broken healthcare system. It is grounded in an ethical, scientific, and human approach to addressing burnout. It empowers physicians to lead as healers in the community with other clinicians as well as the people we serve. This is a must-read for every physician at any point in their career, and for every American who wishes for a safer and more functional system of healthcare.”
– Geriatrics Physician
“…Dr. Ramnath elegantly draws a parallel between the field of architecture and the evolving role of physicians, illustrating how doctors can design and build more resilient and compassionate healthcare environments. He envisions health architects as leaders of multidisciplinary teams, guiding collaborative efforts with respect for each member’s expertise to deliver holistic and effective patient care. This approach not only enhances patient outcomes but also grants higher agency to the future health architect…”
– Chief Medical Information Officer
“If Hippocrates lived in the 21st century, he would rewrite his oath with this book on his desk.”
– Internal Medicine Physician and Specialist in Rare Diseases, Spain
Join the movement to reclaim purpose and reimagine healthcare.
Start with A New Oath.