Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Human Kind : A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine, Paperback / softback Book

The Human Kind : A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

Everyone gets to be a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult doctors; of relationships burdened with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain. Every doctor is haunted by memories of difficult relationships with patients, of the decisions made, and the outcomes that followed.

People whom, despite all of their patience, persistence, the best communication, diagnostic and reasoning skills, they haven’t helped.

People for whose unique suffering it seems medicine has nothing to offer. Dr. Peter Dorward explores the many ethical dilemmas that GPs must face every day, to explain why it is that despite vast resources, time, skill and dedication, medicine is so often destined to fail.

His recollections include his worst failures and biggest challenges, ranging from the everyday, the tragic, the grotesque, the villainous and the humorous.

The Human Kind presents a fresh understanding of the difficult relationship between doctor and patient, and the challenges which both must face.

Information

£9.99

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information