The Medicine: A Doctor's Notes

Name: The Medicine: A Doctor's Notes
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781760641931
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By Karen Hitchcock

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The Medicine: A Doctor's Notes by Karen Hitchcock offers an insightful exploration of the modern practice of medicine from a doctor's perspective. The book combines medical knowledge and patient stories to examine the complexities and challenges faced within the healthcare system. Hitchcock sheds light on the ethical dilemmas, personal experiences, and the human connection underpinning the medical field today.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book may appeal to you if you are fascinated by the intersection of medicine and humanity. The author, a practising doctor, offers a compelling and compassionate insight into the realities of healthcare, exploring the challenges and triumphs faced by both doctors and patients. Perfect for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the medical world and the human stories within it.

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A general practitioner's fearless insights from the frontlines of medical treatment

What happens when a doctor kills a patient? Are GPs overprescribing antidepressants? Does 'female Viagra' work? What role can psychedelics and cannabis play in treating pain? What is sickness, and how much of it is in our heads?

In The Medicine, Dr Karen Hitchcock takes us to the frontlines of everyday treatment, turning her acute gaze to everything from the flu season to dementia, plastic surgery to the humble sick day. In an overcrowded, underfunded medical system, she explores how more of us can be healthier, and how listening carefully to a patient's experience can be as important as prescribing a pill.

These dazzling essays show Hitchcock to be one of the most fearless and illuminating medical thinkers of our time—reasonable, insightful and deeply humane.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760641931

Publisher: Black Inc.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 February 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: Black Inc.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 372g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Dr Karen Hitchcock is a general physician whose clinical work has focused on pain, fatigue, medically unexplained symptoms and obesity. She holds a PhD in English and writes regular essays for The Monthly. She is the author of the Quarterly Essay Dear Life and the story collection Little White Slips, which won the Steele Rudd award in the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. Hitchcock was one of the first authorised prescribers of medicinal cannabis in Australia.

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