num_pages: 232
description: Like all doctors Sherwin Nuland collects stories and over thirty years in the practice of surgery he has collected a consider number of both his own stories as well as the stories of surgeons he has worked with and admires. The remarkable stories told in this book are filled with the lessons of humanity. They describe that sacrosanct connection between two people we call the doctor-patient relationship and that othe relationship between the mentor and student so important to the perpetuation of medical knowledge judgement wisdom and character. Doctors have peculiar ways of approaching certain kinds of problems and many of those ways are captured with with grace and elequence in The Soul of Medicine .
language: English
title: The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside
publisher: Kaplan Publishing