Summary
"A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of God's Hotel. 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... Full description
- Medicine without a soul
- On the cusp of Aquarius
- Dr. Gurushantih and my new white coat
- The man with a hole in his head
- Dr. Greg's 30 percent solution
- A successful petition to the saint of impossible causes
- The mantle of Hippocrates
- Three prophets, no whale
- Visiting day at the henhouse
- A slow medicine clinic before its time
- Passing the point of no return
- Intermission: in which fast medicine and slow medicine come together
- Turnaround
- A craft, a science, and an art
- Upstairs, downstairs
- A short pause to recapitulate, or The crack in the cosmic egg
- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
- Nothing is better than life
- A slow medicine manifesto.