This book is a selection of essays exploring key themes in and around life as a medical doctor.
The contents are a series of selected reflections by Peter Davies, a GP from Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK written over the last 12 years. Their contents are based in UK NHS practice, but go a long way beyond that to wide ranging consideration about what we are doing as doctors, and why we do it this way rather than another. The essays ask searching questions about our current activities as doctors, and whether they are well directed to help patients well or not.
The essays are mostly non-technical so patients and other non-medical people will have little problem understanding the contents. The book will likely be of interest to doctors and medical students, other health care workers, health policy students, healthcare managers, health journalists and others who think about how they encounter health and illness and the healthcare services.
Dr Davies is hoping that making these essays available will be interesting for many readers, and he will be interested to hear how other people- both medical and lay, in UK and from abroad respond to this view of medicine.
The main themes covered are:-
Waking up in the medical matrix
Thoughts about staying sane
Thoughts about the consultation- how can we understand and meet the needs of patients well?
What is health? What would we need to do to achieve this?
The one and the many
How do we get a healthcare system to work?- Observations about how it works at present
Probophilia- the pathological love of proof.
The GANFYD syndrome- Get a note from your doctor
The contents are a series of selected reflections by Peter Davies, a GP from Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK written over the last 12 years. Their contents are based in UK NHS practice, but go a long way beyond that to wide ranging consideration about what we are doing as doctors, and why we do it this way rather than another. The essays ask searching questions about our current activities as doctors, and whether they are well directed to help patients well or not.
The essays are mostly non-technical so patients and other non-medical people will have little problem understanding the contents. The book will likely be of interest to doctors and medical students, other health care workers, health policy students, healthcare managers, health journalists and others who think about how they encounter health and illness and the healthcare services.
Dr Davies is hoping that making these essays available will be interesting for many readers, and he will be interested to hear how other people- both medical and lay, in UK and from abroad respond to this view of medicine.
The main themes covered are:-
Waking up in the medical matrix
Thoughts about staying sane
Thoughts about the consultation- how can we understand and meet the needs of patients well?
What is health? What would we need to do to achieve this?
The one and the many
How do we get a healthcare system to work?- Observations about how it works at present
Probophilia- the pathological love of proof.
The GANFYD syndrome- Get a note from your doctor
