Advice to the Healer On the Art of Caring /

• Main Author: Colgan, Richard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Medicine > History.; Medicine & Public Health.; History of Medicine.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

Clinicians--physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, social workers, psychologists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and others--share the unique responsibility of patient care and the limitless fulfillment this calling can provide. The healing professions have an ancient and venerable t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Ancient Times
• Chinese and Medieval Medicine
• The Twentieth Century,- Modern Masters
• Survival Tips for the Young Clinician
• Civility
• Lessons Learned from Private Practice
• A Doctor's Journal
• Heal thyself
• The Healer.