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

__Medical Wisdom and Doctoring: the Art of 21^st^ Century Practice__ is a guide to making better healers. This conversational book presents not just clinical maxims and precepts supported by current studies, but also historical anecdotes and tales of actual patients and their illnesses. Robert B. Taylor, MD is the author and editor of more than two dozen medical books and a veteran of both rural solo practice and chairmanship of an academic medical school department. This book contains lessons learned from his own experiences, as well as the legacy of medical giants including Hippocrates, Moses Maimonides, Edward Jenner, John Snow and Marie Curie. This book contains practical advice—such as how best to test for diabetic neuropathy and the possible significance of childhood nasal polyps—as well as inspirational guidance to nurture the idealism that drives people to choose medicine as a profession. __Medical Wisdom and Doctoring__ challenges its readers to seek excellence in the daily practice of medicine and should be read by physicians, residents, medical students and all those who provide patient care. Applicable to physicians in all specialties and career stages -Contains both clinical information and anecdotal evidence -An excellent resource for young physicians and students Medical Wisdom and Doctoring: the Art of 21st Century Practice is a guide to making better healers. This conversational book presents not just clinical maxims and precepts supported by current studies, but also historical anecdotes and tales of actual patients and their illnesses. Robert B. Taylor, MD is the author and editor of more than two dozen medical books and a veteran of both rural solo practice and chairmanship of an academic medical school department. This book contains lessons learned from his own experiences, as well as the legacy of medical giants including Hippocrates, Moses Maimonides, Edward Jenner, John Snow and Marie Curie. This book contains practical advice such as how best to test for diabetic neuropathy and the possible significance of childhood nasal polyps as well as inspirational guidance to nurture the idealism that drives people to choose medicine as a profession. Medical Wisdom and Doctoring challenges its readers to seek excellence in the daily practice of medicine and should be read by physicians, residents, medical students and all those who provide patient care. Medical Wisdom and Doctoring: the Art of 21 st Century Practice is a guide to making better healers. This conversational book presents not just clinical maxims and precepts supported by current studies, but also historical anecdotes and tales of actual patients and their illnesses. Robert B. Taylor, MD is the author and editor of more than two dozen medical books and a veteran of both rural solo practice and chairmanship of an academic medical school department. This book contains lessons learned from his own experiences, as well as the legacy of medical giants including Hippocrates, Moses Maimonides, Edward Jenner, John Snow and Marie Curie. This book contains practical advice—such as how best to test for diabetic neuropathy and the possible significance of childhood nasal polyps—as well as inspirational guidance to nurture the idealism that drives people to choose medicine as a profession. Medical Wisdom and Doctoring challenges its readers to seek excellence in the daily practice of medicine and should be read by physicians, residents, medical students and all those who provide patient care. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Medical Wisdom in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 1-23 Caring for the Patient....Pages 25-51 Clinical Dialogue and Communication....Pages 53-72 The Art of Clinical Diagnosis....Pages 73-105 Disease Management and Prevention....Pages 107-134 Caring for Dying Patients and Their Families....Pages 135-155 Making a Living as a Clinician....Pages 157-175 Staying Up To Date....Pages 177-197 Mentoring Tomorrow's Physicians....Pages 199-234 About Your Family and Community....Pages 235-248 Caring for You, the Physician....Pages 249-269 Ethics, Credibility, and Trust....Pages 271-307 Planning for Tomorrow....Pages 309-332 Wise Physicians, Twenty-First Century Challenges, and Doctoring....Pages 333-342 Epilogue....Pages 343-345 Back Matter....Pages 347-366 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. Robert B. Taylor. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 355-358) And Index.