BookVictoria Sweet.
Summary: "A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of God's Hotel. Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes time--time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment. Sweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the course of her career. Here she relates unforgettable stories of the teachers, doctors, nurses, and patients through whom she discovered the practice of Slow Medicine, in which she has been a pioneer. Medicine, she makes us see, is a craft and an art as well as a science. It is relational, personal, even spiritual. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdom that no algorithm can replace--that brings together "fast" and "slow" in a truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of healing"-- Provided by publisher. "The award-winning author of God's Hotel offers a radical reimagining of how we practice medicine"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Medicine without a soul
On the cusp of Aquarius
Dr. Gurushantih and my new white coat
The man with a hole in his head
Dr. Greg's 30 percent solution
A successful petition to the saint of impossible causes
The mantle of Hippocrates
Three prophets, no whale
Visiting day at the henhouse
A slow medicine clinic before its time
Passing the point of no return
Intermission: in which fast medicine and slow medicine come together
Turnaround
A craft, a science, and an art
Upstairs, downstairs
A short pause to recapitulate, or The crack in the cosmic egg
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Nothing is better than life
A slow medicine manifesto.
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