Title How not to be a doctor : and other essays / John Launer.

Publication Info.	New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2018.
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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages)
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231).
Contents	How not to be a doctor -- Stress test -- Plus ça change -- Modern medicine -- What's in a name? -- The wrong trousers -- Close encounters -- Mentioned in passing -- All Greek to me -- Anna O and the 'talking cure' -- Doing the rounds -- It's all in the body -- Dr Scrooge's casebook -- The itch -- Of cheese and choice -- Let's talk about sex -- Mysteries of the male -- The enduring asylum -- Do not disturb -- Burning your relatives -- The problem with sex -- The art of questioning -- Hot water -- Interpreting illness -- It takes two -- Yellow nose sign -- Dialogue and diagnosis -- Breaking the news -- Careers advice -- Only obeying orders -- The art of not listening -- End of the road -- Escaping the loop -- Impaled on the invisible -- Weasel words -- Folk illness and medical models -- The facts of death -- Care pathways -- On kindness -- Capable but insane -- On the record -- Close readings -- Meet your microbiome -- Opium -- Medicine as poetry -- The breathtakingly simple facts of life -- Monkey business -- Medicine under capitalism -- Memories of the workhouse -- Taking risks seriously -- Three kinds of reflection -- Brief encounter -- Power and powerlessness -- Fathers and sons.
Summary	Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor--a real doctor--should mean being able to draw on every aspect of yourself, your interests, and your experiences, however remote these may seem from the medical task of the moment.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Medicine.
	Medicine and the humanities.
	Medical care.
	Physicians -- Anecdotes.
	Physicians.
	MEDICAL -- Essays.
	MEDICAL -- Physician & Patient.
	MEDICAL -- Physicians.
	SCIENCE -- Essays.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
	MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Atlases.
	MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
	MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
	Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
	Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
	Medicine and the humanities. (OCoLC)fst01015158
	Physicians. (OCoLC)fst01062841
Genre/Form	Anecdotes.
	Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
	Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
	Anecdotes.
	Essays.
Other Form:	Print version: Launer, John. How not to be a doctor. New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2018 1468316311 (OCoLC)1019603176
ISBN	9780715652152 (electronic bk.)
	071565215X (electronic bk.)
	9781468316322
	146831632X
	1468316311
	9781468316315
	9780715652145

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