Hektoen International

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Tag: The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside

  • Book review: The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “Life is short, and the art long; the occasion fleeting, experience fallacious, and judgment difficult.”—Hippocrates The Soul of Medicine is a slender (200-page) book by surgeon-author Sherwin B. Nuland. It contains twenty-one essays, each one based on a “tale” told to Nuland by either a medical student (one), or by physicians in…