Thinking About Patients

<p>If medicine is so great why are people getting sick? Why don’t people turn up for follow-up checks or take their pills properly? And why do patients sometimes seem to come from another planet?</p><p>Medicine doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It happens between doctors and patients who seem to inhabit very different worlds. It’s not enough to think about medicine. We need to think more about patients.</p><p>Originally published in 2001 and reissued here with a new preface <i>Thinking About Patients</i> promotes a multidimensional model of medicine. It offers a practical guide to the psychological and social processes involved in practicing medicine and in being a patient. It will help us to return to what medicine is all about – using our skills to serve patients.</p>