Human Kind: A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

Dr. Peter Dorward explores the ethical dilemmas that GPs face every day, explaining why medicine is often destined to fail. His recollections include his worst failures and biggest challenges, ranging from the everyday to the tragic, grotesque, villainous, and humorous.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 352 pages
\n Publication date: 02 May 2019
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.

\n Weight: 244g\n
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 23 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781472943941\n \n