The Midnight Meal and Other Essays about Doctors, Patients, and Medicine

By Jerome Lowenstein

Book Overview

In this expanded edition, an accomplished physician and teacher of medicine discusses the importance of being a caring doctor, especially now that the focus of medicine is increasingly on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300068166
• ISBN13: 9780300068160
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Maintaining humanity in medicine

A series of interesting vignettes by a New York internist/nephrologist on maintaining humanity in medicine. Written in a "from the hip" style, Dr. Lowenstein's book focuses on many of the pitfalls plaguing medicine today. With great and promising technological advances comes a loss of the human approach, something Dr. Lowenstein bemoans. Make no bones about it (no pun)--Dr. Lowenstein does not call for a return to simpler times. However, his musings cause one to wonder if we have lost something special and important as the wheels of progress roll on. Many anecdotes on a range of subjects regarding the daily life of doctors make this book interesting reading for all, and especially for those contemplating entering the medical profession. With this book, Dr. Lowenstein certainly is not "holding the blood gas report", which is the title of one of "The Midnight Meal's" particularly poignant essays.