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The Nature of Clinical Medicine

The Return of the Clinician

By: Eric J. Cassell

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Hardcover | 8 January 2015

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352 Pages

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Clinical medicine, as a thinking discipline, is concerned not only with what clinicians do, but why. When physicians act in medicine they have some purpose or goal in mind. What they actually do and how they go about it is in the service of their purposes and their goals. Such goals cover a wide range of topics centering on patients, the doctor-patient relationship, the acts of doctoring patients, and the goals involved in being a physician among other physicians working within the institutions of medicine.

The Nature of Clinical Medicine takes its direction from a catalog of goals of medicine that range from the expected diagnosis and treatment of diseases to wider concerns for patients, for physicians, and for medicine itself. The chapters are specific in teaching the kinds of knowledge that clinicians require in order to be able to achieve these goals. The central focus of the clinician and of this book is the patient. According to Eric Cassell, everything else, including the disease, is secondary.

Using many examples from real-life medical practice, each chapter examines the different kinds of thought involved in caring for the patient. Cassell takes on a variety of difficult issues, from thinking about values to developing wisdom. The care of the dying, what thinking itself is, and finally, why would one want to do this exciting and rewarding but difficult work, come under discussion in this book.

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"At a time of procedure-driven medicine that is scrutinized by insurance companies, this book is a breath of fresh air showing us how to get back to what medicine should be -- talking to patients. This is a book for everyone, from attending clinicians, to residents and housestaff, to students of all disciplines, as there is uncommon wisdom here. The book has a very free-flowing feel with the chapters focusing on a concept while being highly integrated. This is one of the best books I have read in the last year. It is engaging, thought-provoking, and kind. The quotations throughout make one delve deeper into the discussion and seek out the works mentioned. Ultimately, this should be part of every student curriculum in every discipline of medicine. Score: 100 - 5 Stars! (Perfect Score)" --Vincent F Carr, Doody's Health Science Book Review "Cassell is a great listener and a natural storyteller. I hope that he will write a third volume in which he develops those stories more fully." -- John D. Lantos, The Hastings Center

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