The Appointment
What Your Doctor Really Thinks During Your Ten-Minute Consultation
$39.54
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2018
Summary
HIGHLY COMMENDED for the British Medical Awards book prize for Primary Health Care
Despite the modern trend towards empowering patients and giving them more choice, the nuts and bolts of medical practice largely remain a mystery - a closed box. In fact, the more health information is available on the internet, the more patients can feel swamped and confused. The Appointment offers an intimate and honest account of how a typical GP tries to make sense of a pat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472136336 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1472136330 |
| Author: | Dr Graham Easton |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 128mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Tom Thorne Novels |
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Critics Review
Every chapter is a pleasure to read … Graham Easton is bang on target … it is a book for all patients and, of course, we are all patients. - British Journal of General Practice
For anyone who doubts the breadth and importance of a GP’s work it is wonderfully described in The Appointment, a recent book by Dr Graham Easton. - The Herald (Plymouth)Illuminating book - IndependentBuy it; read it; recommend it - give it, if necessary - to your patients and anyone else who needs to be set straight about the worth and complexity of general practice … To read The Appointment is to know better. - Education for Primary CareIt’s a page-turner … It should be required reading for all students - The Sessional GPAn intimate and honest account - Imperial College Department of Primary Care & Public Health eMagazineAbout The Author
Dr Graham Easton
Dr Graham Easton is a practising GP, Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow at Imperial College Medical School where he trains medical students and junior doctors in general practice.
He has twenty years’ experience as a successful communicator of medical ideas to the non-medical public. He was senior producer and presenter in the BBC Science Unit, launching and presenting Radio 4’s Case Notes and a range of other programmes. He is a regular guest and occasional presenter on Health Check.
He was an editor at the British Medical Journal for four years and is on the editorial boards of the British Journal of General Practice and Education for Primary Care. He has had his own regular columns on the BBC Health website and for Eve Magazine and has published articles in the Radio Times, Tesco Healthy Living and Empire magazine. He is co-author of How to Pass the CSA Exam and General Practice at a Glance (first prize winner in the Primary Care category at the BMA Book Awards 2013).
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