COVER DESIGN: A SHAHAN
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David Hilfiker, M.D.
Healing the Wounds: A Physician Looks at His Work Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book every written by a doctor about his own profession. In it David Hilfiker breaks the silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives us a dramatically personal account of how the family doctor gets by in a world of spiraling information and high anxiety. Drawing on his years of rural and urban experience, Dr. Hilfiker lets us all know what it really feels like to be a doctor. What do you do when you make a serious medical mistake? Is it enjoyable to play God? What do you say to a patient who wants reassurance when the essence of diagnosis is uncertainty? What about money? What happens when a patient is taking forever, your waiting room's full, and you want to get home? Published with a new preface and afterword by the author.
"A strikingly honest, courageous, and clear-sighted depiction of problems
which have become central in medicine today." — Oliver Sacks, M.D.,
author of The Man Who Mistook
His Wife for a Hat
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