The Other Side of Medicine provides an amusing and challenging review of changes and fashions in medicine over the past 50 years. It's a fabulous read that's full of personal anecdotes from doctor and patient perspectives, covering various themes including humanity in medicine, communication and quality assessment of doctors.
‘This book is a collection of articles and short stories covering a medical career. Some are iconoclastic, the theme of good communication in medicine runs throughout, other themes are quality in doctors and the assessment of that quality but I hope the main strand of the book is humanity in medicine and my attempts at understanding what that is.’
Peter Tate, in the Preface
Does thinking make us stupid?
What really matters?
Assessment: is it good or bad for training?
What are we training for?
Hypertension: a tutorial for our time
A retrospective look into the future
Mabel
The ICE man cometh
Making a difference
Trust me I’m a doctor
Modern General Practice and the laboratory
This is a fine mess you have gotten me into
The pursuit of happiness
Managing the Conflict in the Consultation between Data Entry and Caring
To understand everything is to forgive everything? Depression: another disease of our time
What is the secret of healing?
Where from and where to?
Waving not drowning
Measureless to man?
Good points first
The pharaoh S
Smallpox on a passenger liner
A big electrician, a bigger shock and the biggest ship
A terrible illness
Mickey
