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Category: Book Reviews

We have read the Slow Medicine books that matter most and share our thoughts in these reviews.

Cosa dice il malato, cosa sente il medico

Posted on 30 October 202130 October 2021 by Ana Coradazzi

Author: Danielle Ofri Surgeons more than physicians and physicians more than nurses are convinced that surgery or prescription is the only way to heal; everything else is talking. After all, in universities, it is taught that only technical skills count. We prepare students to read a CT scan, interpret an ECG, and evaluate a set…

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When Breath Becomes Air

Posted on 14 August 202114 August 2021 by Ana Coradazzi

Author: Paul Kalanithi “Science may be the most effective way to organize empirical and reproducible data, but this power of its springs from the inability to grasp the fundamental aspects of human life: Hope, Fear, Love, Hate, Beauty, Envy, Honor, Weakness, Commitment, Suffering, Virtue”. Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgeon who comes to these reflections, not…

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God’s Hotel

Posted on 31 July 202131 July 2021 by Ana Coradazzi

Author: Victoria Sweet Victoria Sweet recounts the years she worked as a physician at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, California, a large hospital for the chronically ill, the last functioning almhouse in the United States. The tradition of the Almhouses was to give shelter to the poor, to the old, to people who had…

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The Art of Dying Well

Posted on 4 July 20219 July 2021 by Ana Coradazzi

Author: Katy Butler Dying. The verb itself is capable of causing fear and anxiety. To glimpse our termination (or that of someone we love), even if only at a glance, can be so distressing as to make us ignore the only certainty we all have in our lives: that it will end. We are not…

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My Mother, Your Mother

Posted on 27 June 20219 July 2021 by Ana Coradazzi

Author: Dennis McCullough, MD This is a small piece of art, a book that every geriatrician should read. The book talks about the last years of life and how people can prepare for them to be lived peacefully and satisfyingly, both the elderly person and his or her family. Slow Medicine’s strategy of care is…

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