Listening in Medicine: The Whiplash Mystery & Other Tales
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1412071690 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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His stories are fascinating and the problems some of them address are profound. Truly medicine has its shadows to contrast its light. In the final section the value of teaching in the community is noted. Livingston describes his experiences in a readable style. Finally, family doctors can be recognised as a valued and too often underused resource. Health professionals must return to basic principles, particularly to listening, essential both for diagnosis and for healing. All of us may learn from the wonder and breadth and value of patient's tales in the first section, while the amazing past is revealed in the second. I offer evidence suggesting that such tales or narratives are central to medicine. In an age of technical advance the book reveals that fragmented professions fail people whose health problems may be multiple of chronic. Readers are invited to consider the evidence whether they are students in the health or social sciences, practioners, teachers, insurance adjusters, lawyers, judges, health planners or general readers. In particular, there is the vivid account of the difficulties facing a physician with a patient in a medical crisis who refuses, on religious grounds, conventional treatment. The curious story of "whiplash" reveals the extraordinary bias of some researchers and teachers leading to fundamental errors and waste. Livingston traces medicine's link with literature throughout history in delightful sketches of Chekov and others." Donald B. C