The Human Kind

A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

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Pub Date 04 Sep 2018 | Archive Date 05 Apr 2019

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Description

Everyone is a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult doctors; of relationships burdened with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain.

Every doctor is haunted by memories of difficult relationships with patients, of the decisions made, and the outcomes that followed. People whom, despite all of their patience, persistence, the best communication, diagnostic and reasoning skills, they haven't helped. People for whose unique suffering it seems medicine has nothing to offer.

Dr. Peter Dorward explores the many ethical dilemmas that GPs must face every day, to explain why it is that despite vast resources, time, skill and dedication, medicine is so often destined to fail. His recollections include his worst failures and biggest challenges, ranging from the everyday, the tragic, the grotesque, the villainous and the humorous. The Human Kind presents a fresh understanding of the difficult relationship between doctor and patient, and the challenges which both must face.

Everyone is a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult doctors; of relationships burdened with mutual bafflement...


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ISBN 9781472943903
PRICE $28.00 (USD)
PAGES 352

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There's been a rash (pardon the pun) of books about the experiences of doctors and nurses in the past few months and I appear to have read most of them. This was by far the most disappointing sadly - I felt that Dorward came across very much as a Dr from the past rather than the new compassionate breed who I have been reading about (and also during my own recent serious health problems treated by). There were some interesting ideas covered but I'd rather have read more about them than Dorward's appointments and attitude.

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