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Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780399573316ISBN-10:399573313UPC:9780399573316Book Category:Medical, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Physician & Patient, Medical (Incl. Patients), HealingSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SCM5H11FXA
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." --The New York Times Book Review
Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy...
Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780399573316ISBN-10:399573313UPC:9780399573316Book Category:Medical, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Physician & Patient, Medical (Incl. Patients), HealingSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SCM5H11FXA
Victoria Sweet was a physician at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital for more than twenty years, an experience she chronicled in God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine. An associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, she is also a prizewinning historian with a Ph.D. in history and social medicine, and the...
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