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    Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
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    Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of 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.

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 17, 2017
    ISBN9780525497882
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      In this memoir, the author provides her perspective on slow medicine and its importance in today's practice of medicine. As technology has changed every aspect of our lives in the last several decades, medicine is no exception. Today's electronic medical records, diagnostic algorithms, and treatment protocols are the fast paced means of providing medical care in the name of efficiency and uniformity. The problem is, the human body is not a machine and nor are we a uniform as current medical practice would have us believe.The author is no Luddite and she expresses appreciation for the advances technology has brought to medical care. But patients are individuals with their own histories. Often there are multiple conditions requiring medical intervention. What is often missing is the time and skill for the physician to step back and assess the patient with a larger perspective and a longer view in mind. It takes time to understand the patient's narrative, communicating with other doctors, and reviewing reports and lab tests to avoid misdiagnoses and over treatment.As in her previous book, [God's Hotel], her fascination with medieval medicine and how it was likened to tending a garden has informed her counterpoint to the modern mechanistic view of treating the human body. The book is written as memoir, and each chapter has one to several patient anecdotes which demonstrate a lesson Dr. Sweet has learned along the way. Many of these stories build upon the narrative in her previous book [God's Hotel]. She is not proposing a revolution, but a complementary path as a type Ecomedicine to be systematically applied to the treatment of patients.