How Not to Be a Doctor And Other Essays - Hardcover

Launer, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185315752X ISBN 13: 9781853157523

Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

How Not to be a Doctor and Other Essays offers a collection of entertaining and often poignant essays published originally for the CODA column in QMJ. Author, John Launer writes in an amusing style presenting some of his personal experiences and observations of the medical world. Including essays such as 'The Wrong Trousers' and 'The Professor of Cheese' these essays will be a delight to read for the medical professional and the lay reader alike.

About this title

About the Author:

John Launer, Tavistock Clinic, London and London Department of Postgraduate Medical Education

John Launer is a medical educator known nationally for his work in consultation skills, clinical supervision and narrative based medicine. He is one of the best known columnists in the British medical press and has contributed columns and articles to many periodical and journals for over twenty years. He works as both a GP and a consultant and therefore has a unique view of medicine and the health service.

Review:

Commended in the BMA Medical Book Competition, 2008 - Basis of Medicine Category

An all round excellent book, which would appeal to a wide range of healthcare professionals and students ... a light-hearted way of looking at serious subjects.

BMA Judges comments, 2008

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 185315752X
• ISBN 13: 9781853157523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112