As someone who is as jaded as I am about the medical field, I was hoping for more serious inquiry and less humor. I do think the book has many helpful stories that may elucidate positive feelings from many medical consumers, some who may feel their doctors know more than they actually do. I am one who feels the doctors definitely know less than they tell us, so I was hoping for more inquiry and less self-inlfation via humor. But still worth reading.
Funny book:
This book gave me quite a few good laughs. Highly recommended for beginning medical students or even the hardened resident who needs a pick me up. It's nice to read something not related to anatomy or the sciences on occasion.
"s serious topics:
I am a physician, so reading Dr. London's semihumorous review of how he has survived the vagaries of office practice and been an advocate for his patients has been a confirmation of some of my own prejudices. Some of his revelations, such the fact that physicians don't know everything nor diagnose every disease accurately, may come as a shock to some people. Medicine involves one imperfect human being caring for a series of similarly flawed people who happen to be sick and distressed by their illness. It's... more info
Kill us with how terribly clever you as, Oscar.:
I am obviously out of step with the opinions of the other readers. I am in the medical field, and this may affect how I view this book ( although I ADORED House of God). I felt like the author wrote this book so he could admire how very clever he was, like a vain person who is always checking him/herself out in the store windows when walking by. Just to smug.
