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On All Sides of the Bed

Joseph Pepe

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English
Bungalow by the Bay Publishing LLC
05 March 2026
Medicine looks different depending on where you stand.

For patients, it can feel like a maze of uncertainty and life-altering decisions. For physicians, it is a daily balance between science, judgment, and the limits of what medicine can truly control. For healthcare leaders, it becomes a system of people, pressures, and difficult choices.

In On All Sides of the Bed: One Physician's Journey, Joseph Pepe, MD, reflects on a career spent experiencing medicine from each of these perspectives.

Beginning with his early path into medicine and continuing through decades of clinical practice and healthcare leadership, Dr. Pepe shares the moments that shaped his understanding of the profession. Along the way he explores the realities of patient care, the challenges of medical decision-making, and the moral uncertainty that physicians and families often face when illness changes the course of life.

Part memoir, part reflection on modern healthcare, this book offers an honest look at medicine as it is practiced in the real world-where evidence, experience, and human judgment must often work together in the face of uncertainty.

For physicians, patients, and anyone curious about what really happens behind the exam room door, On All Sides of the Bed provides a thoughtful perspective on the human side of medicine.
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Imprint:   Bungalow by the Bay Publishing LLC
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   358g
ISBN:   9798234024640
Pages:   266
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Joseph Pepe, MD, is a retired physician and healthcare executive who spent more than three decades in clinical medicine and health system leadership. During his career he served in roles including Chief Medical Officer and President & CEO of a large regional healthcare system, where he worked at the intersection of patient care, medical ethics, and healthcare innovation.Dr. Pepe writes about medicine, decision-making, and the human side of healthcare. His work explores how physicians, patients, and families navigate complex medical choices and the moral uncertainty that often accompanies them.He is the author of On All Sides of the Bed: One Physician's Journey, a memoir reflecting on the experiences that shaped his career in medicine and leadership.Dr. Pepe lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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