Kill as Few Patients as Possible: And 56 Other Essays on How to Be the World's Best Doctor - Softcover

Oscar London

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089815197X ISBN 13: 9780898151978

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 2004

Synopsis

In this book is advice that will gladden -- and possibly strengthen -- the hearts of patients and doctors alike. 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. Follow along as you laugh and learn how your own physician can become the world's second best doctor.

About this title

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. For example, in moving tones he tells of his joy at consulting a dour hematologist who properly diagnosed a 24-year-old woman's elusive illness and saved her life. Then he makes an all-too-familiar, if well-phrased, complaint about being forced to look at other doctors' vacation photos. 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 stress ("taken in moderation, Valium works immoderately well to get my tense patients through their days and nightsand me through minewith brain and liver cells intact"). Despite some overreaching for humorous effect, this is an entertaining, insightful book.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 089815197X
• ISBN 13: 9780898151978
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 102