Heirs of General Practice

by John McPhee

Book Overview

Heirs of General Practice is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age--about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new medical specialty called family practice. They are people who have addressed themselves to a need for a unifying generalism in a world that has become greatly subdivided by specialization, physicians who work with the unquantifiable idea that a doctor who treats your grandmother, your father,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374519749
• ISBN13: 9780374519742
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

First rate McPhee

A former student sent me this book after her first year in medical studies and said "finally someone who tells it like it is". Definitely NOT about urban Medibusiness or the world of HMOS and doctors too busy to doctor, instead McPhee focuses on the lives and work of young doctors in rural Maine, bringing us their story and that of their patients with compassion and without either the cloying sentimentality or the muck-raking zeal that sometimes clogs this topic. A quick read & well worth it.