Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

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A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning writer of God’s Hotel
 
Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” have a 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 may be miraculously simple. Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes time—time to answer bodies in addition to data, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right remedy.
 
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 came upon 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 in addition to a science. It is relational, personal, even spiritual. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdom that no set of rules can replace—that brings together “fast” and “slow” in a actually effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of healing. 

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