Ronald Epstein Scribner, 2017, HB, 304pp, £18.99, 978-1501121715
This is one of those very rare books that I would recommend as essential reading for every GP. It shows us how we can reinvigorate our clinical practice, and make Cum Scientia Caritas a living, breathing reality.
It’s all there in the title. In the US and Canada, an attending physician is someone who has completed their clinical training and practises their medicine in a clinic or a hospital. But an attending physician, of course, is also someone who pays attention, who takes note of the needs and desires of their patients, and equally of their own feelings and reactions. …