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Act Like a Doctor, Think Like a Patient - by Alan Sidney Rockoff (Paperback)

Act Like a Doctor, Think Like a Patient - by  Alan Sidney Rockoff (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The author, a practicing physician and medical educator, has taught medical students for 35 years. He focuses on the need for medical providers to understand the way their patients view what is wrong with them, why it happened, and what should be done. Medicine should be about not just on curing disease but on making patients feel better.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The author, a practicing physician and medical educator, shares what he has taught senior medical students for 35 years. He focuses on the need for medical providers to understand not just the pathophysiology and treatment of disease, but the way in which patients view what is wrong with them, how it came to happen, and what ought to be done about it. The emphasis in clinical medicine should be not just on curing disease but on making patients feel better, </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Act Like a Doctor, Think Like a Patient should be required reading for all medical students. Rockoff combines seasoned clinical expertise with an uncanny ability to see the world through the eyes of his patients. Wit, wisdom and compassion find their way onto every page of this well-written account of a fascinating career. Steve Adelman, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine<br>

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