How not to be a doctor and other essays

• Main Author: Launer, John (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Overlook Duckworth 2019
• Subjects: Medicine; Medicine and the humanities; Medical care; Physicians > Anecdotes
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Drawn from his popular medical columns over the years, John Launer shares fifty of his best-loved essays, covering topics from essentials skills they don't teach you in medical school to his poignant account of being a patient himself as he received treatment for a life-threatening illness. Tak...

Table of Contents:

• How not to be a doctor
• |t Stress test
• |t Plus ça change
• |t Modern medicine
• |t What's in a name?
• |t The wrong trousers
• |t Close encounters
• |t Mentioned in passing
• |t All Greek to me
• |t Anna O and the 'talking cure'
• |t Doing the rounds
• |t It's all in the body
• |t Dr Scrooge's casebook
• |t The itch
• |t Of cheese and choice
• |t Let's talk about sex
• |t Mysteries of the male
• |t The enduring asylum
• |t Do not disturb
• |t Burning your relatives
• |t The problem with sex
• |t The art of questioning
• |t Hot water
• |t Interpreting illness
• |t It takes two
• |t Yellow nose sign
• |t Dialogue and diagnosis
• |t Breaking the news
• |t Careers advice
• |t Only obeying orders
• |t The art of not listening
• |t End of the road
• |t Escaping the loop
• |t Impaled on the invisible
• |t Weasel words
• |t Folk illness and medical models
• |t The facts of death
• |t Care pathways
• |t On kindness
• |t Capable but insane
• |t On the record
• |t Close readings
• |t Meet your microbiome
• |t Opium
• |t Medicine as poetry
• |t The breathtakingly simple facts of life
• |t Monkey business
• |t Medicine under capitalism
• |t Memories of the workhouse
• |t Taking risks seriously
• |t Three kinds of reflection
• |t Brief encounter
• |t Power and powerlessness
• |t Fathers and sons.