Dr. Rick’s Books
Doctor Confidential: Secrets Behind the Veil
Truly a book for everyone, Doctor Confidential uses the deeply personal stories of Dr. Sheff’s training in medical school and residency as a family physician, reflected upon after a lifetime in healthcare, as the vehicle for a captivating narrative of the journey of physicians, of patients, and of opening the heart.
What people are saying about “Doctor Confidential: Secrets Behind the Veil”
“I’m a changed person from reading Doctor Confidential”
Roger Jellinek
Executive Director, Hawaii Book and Music Festival
“Dr. Sheff’s gripping stories about what happens inside physicians and between physicians and patients help us all create a new reality for health and healing. Through the voice of a mature physician reflecting on the formative experiences that have fueled over two decades a new way for patients to better understand physicians and physicians to better understand themselves. Science cures. Spirituality heals. Dr. Sheff has captured the powerful interplay of both in a book all of us, healers as well as those in need of healing, should read.”
Leland R. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Author and Healthcare Futurist
“Out of his pain, his wisdom, and his humor, Dr. Sheff gives readers an understanding of the deepest sources of great doctoring as well as the pitfalls when doctors receive, not a true medical education, but medical information, which drains the true capacity to heal out of today’s doctors. In order to coach and guide every patient into becoming an exceptional patient who utilizes the self-healing abilities within each of us, every patient, doctor in training, and practicing physician should read this book.”
Bernie Siegel, MD
Author of Love, Medicine and Miracles
and Love, Magic and Mudpies
Joyfully Shattered: A Physician’s Awakening at the Crossroads of Science and Spirituality, Fifth Anniversary Edition
Dr. Sheff shares his journey from passionate atheist to tentative seeker to joyfully shattered on his surprising spiritual path, without ever leaving science behind. He provides breadcrumbs from his spiritual path to help you with yours.
Praise for “Joyfully Shattered”
“Joyfully Shattered is the journey of a physician who became a mystic and now is an escort into the nature of the Soul and what is possible for humankind. This is truly a profound book.”
Caroline Myss
Anatomy of the Spirit
Loving, intelligent, conscious ENERGY is what life and creation are about. Reading Joyfully Shattered will help you find this and more in your own life.”
Bernie Siegel, MD
Author of The Art of Healing and A Book of Miracles
“Joyfully Shattered provides a significant contribution to the growing integration of science and spirituality, as well as a roadmap for all seekers of truth on their own journey to joy.”
Larry Dossey, MD
Author of One Mind: How Our Individual Consciousness Is Part of a Greater Mind and Why It Matters
“Joyfully Shattered is a treasure for all of humankind. This exceptional book provides an awakening for all people, whether they recognize themselves to be on a spiritual path or not. Dr. Sheff points the way to our shared future, the coming integration of science and spirituality, joined together by love.”
William A. Tiller, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Co-founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Creating Conscious Health Care
(Coming Fall 2026)
Creating Conscious Healthcare tells the fictional—but fiercely realistic—story of Readfield Medical Center, a hospital on the brink of failure. Unless it can transform itself, it will close.
At the center of Readfield’s struggle is its CEO, whose vivid near-death experience leaves her profoundly changed. Returning to the relentless pressures of hospital leadership, she faces an extraordinary challenge: Can the insights of a spiritual awakening survive in the hard-nosed world of modern healthcare?
What follows is an inspiring and deeply satisfying journey of transformation as Readfield discovers a radically different way to heal—not only its patients, but itself. Part gripping story and part master class in organizational transformation, Creating Conscious Healthcare reveals what becomes possible when courageous leadership, human connection, and love become forces for change.
The result is a hospital powered by love—and a vision of healthcare that can inspire us all.
The Creating Conscious Healthcare Roadmap™: A Surprising Pathway for Transformation and Sustainability
(Coming Fall 2026)
The story showed what is possible. Now discover how to make it happen.
Written as the practical companion to Creating Conscious Healthcare, The Creating Conscious Healthcare Roadmap™ reveals the blueprint behind Readfield Medical Center’s remarkable transformation.
Here, the story gives way to the how. The principles and practices that fueled Readfield’s turnaround are distilled into a succinct, actionable 10-step roadmap for leaders seeking profound and sustainable change in their own organizations.
But this is more than another approach to organizational improvement. The Roadmap invites leaders to look beneath strategies, structures, and performance metrics to the deeper forces that determine whether transformation truly takes hold—and whether it lasts.
Drawing together the human, organizational, and transformational dimensions of change, The Creating Conscious Healthcare Roadmap™ offers a practical pathway for building organizations in which people can thrive, purpose can come alive, and exceptional performance can emerge from a fundamentally different way of leading.
If Creating Conscious Healthcare inspires us with a vision of what healthcare can become, The Creating Conscious Healthcare Roadmap™ shows us the path for getting there.
