The Best of Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and the Covenant of Caring

by Michael D'Antonio and Mike Magee

Features stories about doctors who practice the 'Best Medicine'. This book portrays twenty-five doctor-patient relationships which show ways to improve our health, our lives and our communities. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312241844
• ISBN13: 9780312241841
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

What Medicine Should Be

The Best Medicine is a collection of stories about doctors who love their work. Patients are portrayed as the partners and customers of the doctors in working toward better health. The personal interaction shown between doctors and patients is, I think, what most of us wish for, instead of the horrendous impersonal bureaucracy that medicine has become. If government regulation of medicine were ended and we got rid of all third party payer systems, this book is what medicine could and should be like. Doctors and patients as partners working together. Government intervention in medicine makes them adversaries,