Slow Medicine: The Way To Healing
by Victoria Sweet /
2017 / English / EPUB
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A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced,
from the award-winning author of
A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced,
from the award-winning author ofGod's Hotel
God's Hotel
Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician,
“healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their
laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in
the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists
and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple.
Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes
time—time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at
the right diagnosis and the right treatment.
Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician,
“healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their
laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in
the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists
and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple.
Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes
time—time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at
the right diagnosis and the right treatment.
Sweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the
course of her remarkable career. Here she relates unforgettable
stories of the teachers, doctors, nurses, and patients through whom
she discovered the practice of Slow Medicine, in which she has been
both pioneer and inspiration. Medicine, she helps us to see, is a
craft and an art as well as a science. It is relational, personal,
even spiritual. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdom that no
algorithm can replace—that brings together “fast” and “slow” in a
truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of
healing.
Sweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the
course of her remarkable career. Here she relates unforgettable
stories of the teachers, doctors, nurses, and patients through whom
she discovered the practice of Slow Medicine, in which she has been
both pioneer and inspiration. Medicine, she helps us to see, is a
craft and an art as well as a science. It is relational, personal,
even spiritual. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdom that no
algorithm can replace—that brings together “fast” and “slow” in a
truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of
healing.