The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books) 1st Edition by Siddhartha Mukherjee (PDF)

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Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a “science”? Sciences must have laws—statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences? Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question—a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline—culminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee’s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.

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⭐Beautifully crafted in the Mukherjee way with important insights about the all-too-human limits of medical science. The short text doesn’t justify the ambitious title.

⭐The author shares the physicians view of medicine. I do not argue with the simplicity ofThe book, because many people ignore simple things though they may be significant.What I feel is going on in North American medicine is the following:Doctors can get sued, they need expensive insurance. Residency is practically institutionalizedHazing. Middle class people cannot become doctors because it costs too much in timeAnd money.Despite all of this, some people still go through with this process. There is privilege andRespect in a licence to practice medicine.So what is wrong with the medical profession today?Just as in the Trump presidency, the masses or the silent majority have voted with theirWallet. Acupuncture and TCM is not unheard of in Canada nowadays, neither isAyurvedic medicine, thanks to the simplified works of a certain Dr Deepak Chopra.I predict that if mainstream doctors do not accept these trends, they will earn even lessIn the future./END DIATRIBE

⭐I’ve always been spell bound by the way Mukherjee writes. And this is one of this best short non fiction novels. It drives home the point. Doctors are fallible. We are not gods.

⭐This book is a great read, especially for those work in more black and white fields like IT. A lot of careful work goes into medicine, but it is not engineering. muhkerjee writes with a wonderful flowing style that makes the material a joy to read.

⭐This book is an extended reflection on the different cognitive cultures that come together in the discipline(s) of medicine, which is itself at once a natural as well as a human science. It is full of comparative and historical insights about the interactions between reason, intuition, memory, language, emotions, perception and imagination. (Teachers of IB Theory of Knowledge will recognize this list of faculties as the Ways of Knowing.) I cannot recommend this book urgently enough to my TOK colleagues the world over, and to anyone interested in a richly reasoned account of the scientific and social complexities at play in medical diagnosis and treatment.

⭐The author takes us on a marvelous quest for answers regarding medical laws. His discoveries are revealed in a format that is both understandable and somewhat mysterious. He takes us to a place in medicine where the recognition of the minute differences in our individual chemistry form barriers in treatment and diagnosis. Mukherjee gives us some understanding in the important use of biases and intuition by physicians. This is a great sequel to “The Emperor Of All Maladies”. Recommended reading for those curious about diagnosis and treatment from a doctor’s perspective.

⭐An excellent exposition of how little we know for sure in medicine. After 50 years of practicing medicine, I am beginning to understand how true that is. My son is also a physician, And in his first year of medical school his professor told the class that when they graduated in four years half of what they had been taught will have been proven wrong. The problem is, they don’t know which half. It is a constantly evolving profession, And endlessly challenging and surprising.

⭐Interesting perspective on the status of medical research. It provides a realistic view of medicine as a science which enables one to have better expectations on treatment. Medicine is not an exact science yet many of us view it as such. However, progress is being made toward that direction. I look forward to a follow on a few years from now.

⭐From the three laws the author announces, two should suffice to change the way doctor works and patients expect them to work:1) A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weak test.2) For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human biasIf these two laws were persistently applied, medicine would cost us much less not only in money, but also in despair and suffering.I am among those who believe that lab test have been used more often to obfuscate medical ignorance than to help patients. And medical experiments, especially with expensive drugs and expensive medical procedures are much prone to enrich doctors and ameliorate Big Pharma bottom line than to help patients.After reading this short book everyone will the able to better understand why much of what we hear about expensive drugs and sophisticated medical procedure are injuring us, killing us and making us poorer. Everyone will also understand why intuition is an attribute so necessary in the art of healing.I recommend this book for everyone who thinks good medicine means tens of expensive lab tests followed by a long prescription of modern and expensive drugs. For these people, this book might save their lives. Or, at least save them big bucks.

⭐His Emperor book was magisterial in scope and simplicity. This little dandy is much more philosophical and yet profoundly pragmatic, especially for those of us who dwell in the world of real patients with real problems. This gem will give us some word tools to help us pass on the intuitive wisdom of experience without feeling ashamed of it. .

⭐Very nice book. A must for any physician. This man has obviously experimented what all Heath care personnel experiences, but has finally analyze it all in a humane way and put it out there for one to consider.

⭐I could not stop reading this any more than I could stop reading Emperor of all Maladies, before it. I am unsure whether his claims to fame should be as Doctor or Writer or Thinker/Teacer…he truly opens your mind to recognizing possibilities

⭐Es un libro especial. Corto, muy facil de leer y enormemente interesante. Te acerca a puntos basicos de la estdistica y te enseña a sacar parfido de los casos que se salen de la normalidad

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