Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients."Â â€”The New York Times Book Review
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Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, â€œhealthcareâ€ has replaced medicine, â€œprovidersâ€ look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes timeâ€”time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment.
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Sweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the course of her remarkable career. Here she relates unforgettable stories of the teachers, doctors, nurses, and patients through whom she discovered the practice of Slow Medicine, in which she has been both pioneer and inspiration. Medicine, she helps us to see, is a craft and an art as well as a science. It is relational, personal, even spiritual. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdom that no algorithm can replaceâ€”that brings together â€œfastâ€ and â€œslowâ€ in a truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of healing.Â
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780399573316
Color White
ReleaseDate 2018-10-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780399573316

Country	USA
Brand	Riverhead Books
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780399573316
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2018-10-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399573316

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

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