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Slow Medicine

by Victoria Sweet
Victoria Sweet
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"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." —The New York Times Book Review
 
Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” 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 time—time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment.
 
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 replace—that brings together “fast” and “slow” in a truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of healing. 
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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780525497899
  • File size: 286159 KB
  • Release date: October 17, 2017
  • Duration: 09:56:09

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780525497899
  • File size: 286197 KB
  • Release date: October 17, 2017
  • Duration: 09:58:11
  • Number of parts: 8

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Biography & Autobiography Medical Nonfiction

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English

"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." —The New York Times Book Review
 
Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” 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 time—time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment.
 
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 replace—that brings together “fast” and “slow” in a truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of healing. 
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Medical Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Books on Tape
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780525497899
    File size: 286159 KB
    Release date: October 17, 2017
    Duration: 09:56:09

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780525497899
    File size: 286197 KB
    Release date: October 17, 2017
    Duration: 09:58:11
    Number of parts: 8

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English