How not to be a doctor and other essays
Launer, John2019
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This is the thought-provoking collection of Dr Launer's most insightful anecdotes, musings and commentaries on the medical profession, which provides us with an understanding of what it takes to be a doctor in the UK. Based on his work as a doctor, as well as his own experiences as a patient, it includes accounts of his travels to far-flung places, including the moment when he was 'the only doctor in the house' on a train to Cairo where a ten year-old boy needed an emergency appendectomy. He also shares lessons on the secret language of patient-doctor relations learnt through challenging consultations, concluding that 'of all professions, doctors are almost invariably the most proficient at not listening.' He explores the medical taboos so rarely discussed in or outside the medical profession.
Main title:
How not to be a doctor and other essays / John Launer ; with a foreword by Dr Phil Hammond.
Author:
Launer, John, author
Imprint:
London : Duckworth, 2019.
Collation:
xv, 230 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780715653364 (pbk)
Dewey class:
610.92
LC class:
R489
Language:
English
BRN:
2518858
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