Medical Wisdom and Doctoring: The Art of 21st Century Practice / Edition 1

by Robert Taylor

Overview

Medical Wisdom and Doctoring aims to fill a need in the current medical literature for a resource that presents some of the classic wisdom of medicine, presented in a manner that can help today's physicians achieve their full potential. This book details the lessons every physician should have learned in medical school but often didn't, as well as classic insights and examples from current clinical literature, medical history, and anecdotes from the author's long and distinguished career in medicine. Medical Wisdom and Doctoring: the Art of 21st Century Practice presents lessons a physician may otherwise need to learn from experience or error, and is sure to become a must-have for medical students, residents and young practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441955203
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	03/04/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Introductory Quote v

Preface vii

About This Book xiii

1 Medical Wisdom in the Twenty-First Century 1

2 Caring for me Patient 25

3 Clinical Dialogue and Communication 53

4 The Art of Clinical Diagnosis 73

5 Disease Management and Prevention 107

6 Caring for Dying Patients and Their Families 135

7 Making a Living as a Clinician 157

8 Staying Up To Date 177

9 Mentoring Tomorrow's Physicians 199

10 About Your Family and Community 235

11 Caring for You, the Physician 249

12 Ethics, Credibility, and Trust 271

13 Planning for Tomorrow 309

14 Wise Physicians, Twenty-First Century Challenges, and Doctoring 333

15 Epilogue 343

Glossary 347

Bibliography 355

Index 359

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“The book is as close to an autobiography as Dr Taylor may get, full of personal advice and clinical stories couched in terms that seek to instruct and teach what he has learned in a lifetime of reading, practicing medicine, and writing. The writing … is concise and includes the ideas and research and anecdotes that have guided him. … The book gives the reader insight into the last half century of practice and shares lessons learned from a respected leader in academic medicine.” (John Frey, Family Medicine, Vol. 44 (4), April, 2012)

From the Publisher