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Slow Medicine
- The Way to Healing
- Narrated by: Victoria Sweet
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
The award-winning author of God's Hotel offers a radical reimagining of how we practice medicine
In the quarter-century that Victoria Sweet has been a doctor, "health care" has replaced medicine, "providers" (vastly outnumbered by administrators) look at their laptops more than at their patients, and the ruthless pursuit of efficiency has vanquished not only trust and intimacy but also often the effectiveness of treatment.
Victoria Sweet knows that there is an alternative way, because she has lived and practiced it. In her new book, she reflects with compassion, wit, and profound insight on experiences drawn from her time in medical school, internship, and residencies, and the clinics and hospitals that lay beyond - the path to the "slow medicine" in which she has been pioneer and inspiration. Via unforgettable stories of the patients she tended and the colleagues with whom she served, she gives voice to a way of medicine that responds to bodies rather than data, that appreciates the profession as craft as well as science, and that alchemizes "fast" and "slow" into a much more humane, sustainable, and successful way of caring and being cared for.
Critic reviews
"Wonderful...often lyrical...subtle and insightful.... Physicians would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients from Sweet's book: 'Establishing the correct diagnoses and then getting them off all those unnecessary medications, with their side effects and adverse reactions, took a lot of time, but in the long run it saved way more money than it cost. It was slower but it was better.'" (The New York Times Book Review)
"Anybody considering medical school, or already toiling there, has to read this book. Everyone else should too...[Sweet’s] memoir of growing slowly into her calling is about learning not just to save lives but to make a life.... Her personal odyssey is more stirring than any polemical manifesto could be." (The Atlantic)
"Through the moving stories of patients and her experiences in medical school, [Sweet] explores how she found a compassionate way to care. A thoughtful companion to one of today’s hot-button issues." (Good Housekeeping)
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- lizziebee
- 12-01-22
A fascinating read
Beautifully read by the author, this book is a fascinating read about the training and life of the medic author. The deep learnings she took from wise teachers. The constantly enquiring mind that led her to Slow Medicine wisdom. How I would love to have a doctor like Dr Sweet!
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