Lucy McBride moves beyond the prescription

You Deserve Better Than This

For too long, you've been told health is simple: Follow the checklist. Do what you're told.

But the 15-minute doctor's appointment doesn't give you answers. The wellness guru's promises don't deliver results. And you're left feeling powerless—not knowing who to trust or what your body really needs.

The truth? Both traditional medicine and the wellness industry profit from your uncertainty. One reduces you to data points and billing codes. The other sells you aspirational advice without evidence.

There's a better way. One that empowers you to make informed decisions, ask better questions, and find trusted guides. One that moves the locus of control from out there (checklists, gurus, conflicting advice) to inside yourself.

That's what Beyond the Prescription teaches you to do.

Let’s Move Beyond

the Prescription.

You're stuck between a healthcare system that rushes through appointments and a wellness industry selling expensive promises. Neither one sees you as a whole person. Neither gives you real power over your health.

It's time to become the CEO of your own health.

I'm Dr. Lucy McBride, a Harvard-trained primary care physician with 25 years of clinical experience. I wrote Beyond the Prescription to give you a proven 5-step roadmap to take charge of your health—moving you from awareness to acceptance to agency.

Because health isn't a checklist. It's a process. And it starts with you.

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The 5-Step Roadmap to Taking Charge of Your Health

In Beyond the Prescription, I walk you through a proven process to reclaim agency over your health:

1. Redefine health on your own terms — Move beyond BMI and cholesterol to understand what health truly means for you

2. Understand your broad health ecosystem — Use my four-quadrant framework (Informatics, Inputs, Infrastructure, Insight) to see the complete picture

3. Reckon with your patient personality — Discover how you naturally approach healthcare and leverage your strengths

4. Ask for—and get—the help you need — Learn to navigate the medical system and find trusted guides

5. Accept what you cannot control — Make peace with uncertainty and focus your energy where it matters most

This isn't about becoming your own doctor. It's about becoming an empowered partner in your care.

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Each week, Dr. Lucy McBride talks with her guests like she does her patients — pulling the curtain back on what it means to be healthy, connecting the dots between mental and physical health.

To Dr. McBride, health is about more than the absence of disease. It's about having awareness of our medical facts, acceptance of the things we cannot control, and agency over what we can change.

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Dr. Lucy McBride’s podcast is unique and pertinent for today’s issues. She emphasizes all the components of good health, including mental health, and interviews different sorts of experts that lend credibility to her message. She interjects her own personal stories into conversations with her guests in ways that illustrate important information and convey clarity. A real treat!

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Easy conversations with fascinating people Dr. McBride’s podcast targets what I am always interested in learning more about - how our body’s overall health is tied to our mental health and life experiences as well as our nutritional habits. I enjoy taking the time to listen to her podcast and always come away with some new nugget of information/data that I can use myself or for my family.

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