Looking for the Bigger Picture in General Practice

This thought-provoking book exposes and challenges the hidden assumptions of modern medicine: the body is a kind of machine, symptoms must be caused by disease, health depends on healthcare, prevention is better than cure, things that can be measured are more real than those that cannot, how we see things is how they are, relationships are peripheral to medical care, and proper doctors just keep going. It encourages readers to reconsider how they think about health and the wider healthcare system, and how to look after patients, themselves and each other as clinicians.