Kill as Few Patients as Possible: And 56 Other Essays on How to Be the World's Best Doctor
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 089815197X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this book is advice that will gladden -- and possibly strengthen -- the hearts of patients and doctors alike. Follow along as you laugh and learn how your own physician can become the world's second best doctor.. With unassailable logic and rapier wit, Dr. Oscar London defends his claim to be the World's Best Doctor by explaining the 57 rules he follows
Enjoyed, but not as helpful as I had hoped As someone who is as jaded as I am about the medical field, I was hoping for more serious inquiry and less humor.I do think the book has many helpful stories that may elucidate positive feelings from many medical consumers, some who may feel their doctors know more than they actually do.I am one who feels the doctors definitely know less than they tell us, so I was hoping for more inquiry and less self-inlfation via humor.But still worth reading.. K. L Sadler said Hilarious medicine by a first-class curmudgeon!. Oh geez, I have never laughed so hard. This guy is definitely one of the funniest doctors and columnists that ever existed. I needed something to lighten the research I am doing currently on eugenics and the deaf community for my dissertation, and this book fit the bill. London, if that is really his name, had a capacity to see the humorous and explain it to the general public in such a way, that we see the the situation as he perceives it. That is the sign of a great writer. He also obviously takes his whole profession with a large grain of salt, which is s. "Rule 57: Rehearse Your Final Words" according to ealovitt. I became positive my father had written this book during Dr. Arlan Cohn's (aka Oscar London, M.D., W.B.D.) discussion of office music: "If [a doctor] wants to destroy his practice, he might consider bringing in an accordion player. (One night at a restaurant, I reached out and plunged my dinner knife into the bellows of an approaching accordion; the stricken look on the player's face when the wind was knocked out of his "Lady of Spain" was well worth the price of damages.)"Okay, so my father is a deceased dentist and Dr. Cohn is a 70-something internist, but
From Publishers Weekly London, an internist in private practice, offers 56 short essays on his profession that consist of alternating doses of slapstick and poignancy. Despite some overreaching for humorous effect, this is an entertaining, insightful book. . But there are many gems here: London tells of pet peeves (being called "Doc"); derides medical conventions (in lecture halls after large meals doctors don't listen because "blood is being massively shunted from brains to intestines"); rails against smoking ("my favorite punchline is to tell a smoker she's microwaving herself to death"); and promotes Valium over alcohol for relieving st