A doctor’s life is far removed from other professional or conventional lives. It does not fit into a neat nine to-five schedule; it is not bound by time–people become ill regardless of whether it is day or night, and very often emergencies occur at the most inconvenient, liminal times. It is, fundamentally, a life caring for others. The work itself takes place at the very edge of the human condition, and in consequence becoming a doctor means leaving civilian life for parts unknown. In A Doctor’s Life, those now entering the medical world–the caretakers of tomorrow– will discover something coherent that will both benefit and advance their own practice in general, but also the people that they care for especially, because that person is the common denominator that all medical care is reduced to: the patient seeking care for some symptom, willing to put their blind trust in another, waiting to be seen

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