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How the Art of Medicine Makes the Science More Effective
Becoming the Medicine We Practice
by Claudia Welch
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Pub Date
21 Aug 2015
| Archive Date
21 Aug 2015
Description
Does the art of medicine matter? Does it really help us become better doctors and improve results? Dr. Claudia Welch explores how the effectiveness of a physician extends far beyond the ability to prescribe correct treatments, and how mastering the art of doctoring can make the medicine more effective.
Drawing on Eastern medical traditions and experience as well as on Western science, Dr. Welch examines how we know what we know, the mechanics of doctor-patient emotional contagion, and the degree to which a patient's sensory experience in a medical office affects their experience of treatments delivered. Dr. Welch also offers practical steps that doctors can take to cultivate more refined perceptive abilities and improve results.
Dr. Welch's book will be essential reading for all health care practitioners interested in understanding the art of their practice and how it can enhance therapeutic outcomes, including doctors of Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Naturopathy, as well as western medical professionals and other complementary health practitioners.
Does the art of medicine matter? Does it really help us become better doctors and improve results? Dr. Claudia Welch explores how the effectiveness of a physician extends far beyond the ability to...
Description
Does the art of medicine matter? Does it really help us become better doctors and improve results? Dr. Claudia Welch explores how the effectiveness of a physician extends far beyond the ability to prescribe correct treatments, and how mastering the art of doctoring can make the medicine more effective.
Drawing on Eastern medical traditions and experience as well as on Western science, Dr. Welch examines how we know what we know, the mechanics of doctor-patient emotional contagion, and the degree to which a patient's sensory experience in a medical office affects their experience of treatments delivered. Dr. Welch also offers practical steps that doctors can take to cultivate more refined perceptive abilities and improve results.
Dr. Welch's book will be essential reading for all health care practitioners interested in understanding the art of their practice and how it can enhance therapeutic outcomes, including doctors of Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Naturopathy, as well as western medical professionals and other complementary health practitioners.
Advance Praise
The concept that a physician can actively cultivate the ability to exert a positive medicinal effect on a patient is a welcome perspective in a world that prioritizes techniques, fad diets, new drugs, remedies, supplements and renegade experimental medicine to address illness. Dr. Claudia Welch teases out unconscious and subconscious assumptions of the modern day physician, and the qualities they engender, shedding light on them from an Eastern medical perspective to offer methods for improvement. This book belongs in the library of every health care practitioner, and indeed any concerned individual, who wishes to cultivate good relationships with, and good influence on, all sentient beings, and our planet.
- Dr. Robert Svoboda
The concept that a physician can actively cultivate the ability to exert a positive medicinal effect on a patient is a welcome perspective in a world that prioritizes techniques, fad diets, new...
Advance Praise
The concept that a physician can actively cultivate the ability to exert a positive medicinal effect on a patient is a welcome perspective in a world that prioritizes techniques, fad diets, new drugs, remedies, supplements and renegade experimental medicine to address illness. Dr. Claudia Welch teases out unconscious and subconscious assumptions of the modern day physician, and the qualities they engender, shedding light on them from an Eastern medical perspective to offer methods for improvement. This book belongs in the library of every health care practitioner, and indeed any concerned individual, who wishes to cultivate good relationships with, and good influence on, all sentient beings, and our planet.
- Dr. Robert Svoboda
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781848192294 |
| PRICE |
US$27.95 (USD)
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781848192294 |
| PRICE |
US$27.95 (USD)
|
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Featured Reviews
Maren R, Reviewer
This book should be a must-read for any medical professional!
This is really a book that reminds the reader that medicine is not just taking pills. It is not just blindly following a doctors orders and not thinking yourself. It is not just doing what others say is right. Medicine and health is all about the art of balancing everything that has to do with the person that is in need of it.
It is a good reminder to everyone that doctors are humans and not gods –for the doctors themselves as well as the patients that blindly follow what ever the doctors orders.
Featured Reviews
Maren R, Reviewer
This book should be a must-read for any medical professional!
This is really a book that reminds the reader that medicine is not just taking pills. It is not just blindly following a doctors orders and not thinking yourself. It is not just doing what others say is right. Medicine and health is all about the art of balancing everything that has to do with the person that is in need of it.
It is a good reminder to everyone that doctors are humans and not gods –for the doctors themselves as well as the patients that blindly follow what ever the doctors orders.
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