Medicine: A Doctor s Notes

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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 and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781760641931
Published: February 2020

Number of pages: 256
Width: 154 mm
Height: 233 mm
Depth: 31 mm

Publisher: Black Inc.