The EQ Prescription

Name: The EQ Prescription
ISBN: 978-1966629535

Put Yourself First to Thrive in Health Care

by Mickey Lebowitz MD

Publisher

River Grove Books

Publication

Sep 25, 2025

Format

Paperback/Softback

Illustrated

Price

$18.95

Dimensions

6 x 9 x 0.66 in

ISBN

978-1966629535

ASIN

1966629532

Pages

262

Age

Adult 18+

Rights Sold

🌍 World Wide Rights Available

Description

Health-care professionals—clinicians, nurses, students—have dedicated countless hours to and made endless sacrifices for their careers, yet too many face dissatisfaction and exit early due to the overwhelming pressures of the system, many of which are out of their control. Unfortunately, standard healthy habits like eating and sleeping well and exercising aren't enough. The remedy? Putting yourself first using The EQ Prescription.

Dr. Mickey Lebowitz, a certified endocrinologist and emotional intelligence expert, offers and guides you through a transformative, groundbreaking concept: the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Zone. This framework provides practical, easy-to-use strategies that can be utilized in real time, especially when the heat is on, and is designed to help you navigate the high-stress demands of health care, allowing you to stay emotionally and physically well so you can be your best and give your best. The benefits are enormous: greater job fulfillment, better patient satisfaction and outcomes, enhanced leadership, and reduced risk of malpractice and burnout. If you're ready to thrive in health care, managing yourself through its inescapable pain points, while delivering exceptional patient care and deservedly enjoying both your professional and personal life, The EQ Prescription is written for you.

Awards & Endorsements

Endorsement

“Dr. Lebowitz brilliantly adds to the compelling discussion as to why patients come second. A must-read for everyone in health care who will absolutely benefit greatly by adhering to the valuable prescription to put themselves first.” —Paul Spiegelman, best-selling author of Patients Come Second; co-founder, Kintsugi Village; co-founder Small Giants Community; founder, BerylHealth and the Beryl Institute

Endorsement

“This book is a master class for all health-care professionals. The real-life experiences and takeaways for clinicians, nurses, and students capture the essence of health care today and its future. As a nurse for many years, I saw myself in many of the examples and will be sure I stay in the Zone. This book challenges you to reflect on becoming more self-aware, recognizing emotions in others so you can build stronger relationships.” —Lynne Shopiro, RN, chief nursing officer, Crouse Hospital

Endorsement

"The EQ Prescription is a timely and essential guide for anyone navigating the emotional complexities of a career in health care. Dr. Lebowitz offers a practical and empowering framework to help clinicians, educators, and students stay grounded, resilient, and effective even amid the stressors that define our profession. Through the lens of the EQ Zone, he reframes wellness as not just a personal goal but a clinical imperative. This book will change how health-care professionals think about self-management and emotional performance in the workplace, and it couldn’t come at a better time." —Michael Roscoe, PhD, PA-C, associate clinical professor of family medicine; director of simulation, Indiana University School of Medicine—Evansville; long-standing PA program director and national PA education leader

Endorsement

“The EQ Prescription is a powerful guide for staying grounded in the demanding world of health care. Dr. Lebowitz distills complex emotional intelligence concepts into practical tools that help clinicians, nurses, and students thrive—improving team dynamics and patient care.” —Seth Kronenberg, MD, president and CEO, Crouse Health

Endorsement

“It was a treat to read The EQ Prescription. I loved the premise of the EQ Zone. The concept is easy to grasp, and best of all, the ‘prescription’ can be used immediately. The writing is excellent, very readable, and gets right to the point, a real bonus for clinicians, nurses, and students in health care who may have limited time. In writing this book, Dr. Lebowitz shares his genuine passion and deep caring for those who deliver health care and describes why it is so important and beneficial to put yourself first and that patients come second.” —Britt Berrett, PhD, FACHE, managing director and teaching professor, BYU Marriott School of Business; best-selling author of Patients Come Second

Author(s)

Mickey Lebowitz MD

Mickey Lebowitz, originally from Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of SUNY Oswego (magna cum laude and student athlete of the year) and Upstate Medical University and a board-certified endocrinologist/diabetologist (Fellow, American College of Endocrinology). He has worked in a physician-owned practice, as an employed physician, in the VA system, and currently as an endocrine hospitalist. He spent seven years as a hospital-based senior medical quality director and is currently a chief medical officer at a health-care transportation company. He’s an educator, serving as the medical director of a physician assistant program in upstate New York, and an author, whose first book, Losing My Patience, was published in 2009. Through Six Seconds, he is a certified assessor, practitioner, facilitator, and coach in emotional intelligence (EQ), coaching clinicians, nurses, and health-care students on leadership, professionalism, and interpersonal relationships. He has given countless presentations and workshops on EQ locally and nationally and is in the process of publishing his research on the impact of EQ on his PA programs’ students. He has been on the list of Best Doctors in America, is an honoree of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (Breakthrough T1D), and has received awards for preceptor and resident teaching, community service for educating health-care professionals on wellness and burnout, dedication and loyalty to the medical profession, and excellence in health-care education, as well as the NYSSPA Physician Advocate of the Year award. Dr. Mickey is most proud of being married to his wonderful wife since 1982, having two fabulous children with awesome spouses and three precious granddaughters, whom he is in love with, head over heels. For fun he likes to exercise by walking, biking, hiking, swimming, and kayaking. He loves traveling, writing songs, rapping (yes, rapping!), and volunteers heavily in his faith and secular community, and he is a FANatic rooting