Book review

[摘要] Suburban Shaman brings medicine (particularly general practice) out of the camera even more effectively than Berger's A Fortunate Man. A disarmingly lightly written story book of Helman's broad experience, it takes down the masks, giving insightful philosophy with consummate wry humour and firmly held opinion. The leitmotif running throughout is humanity in medicine, which Helman demonstrates as being eroded daily by such forces as bureaucracy and technology. He believes the doctor–patient relationship has healing power, and that healing or compassion, informed by science, is the inalienable cornerstone of effective medicine.

[学科分类] 卫生学