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A Little Book of Doctors' Rules
edited by Clifton K. Meador, $9.95, ISBN 1-56053-061-8, Philadelphia, Pa, Hanley & Belfus Inc, 1993.
Elizabeth Alexander, MD, MS, Reviewer
Michigan State University East Lansing
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(10):925.
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Meador's A Little Book of Doctors' Rules is a collection of 425 short pieces of medical wisdom. The entries are brief, often only one-liners that stop us short because we've been told such things before—by patients, by previous teachers, and certainly by our own discovery in the course of doctoring. The author has accumulated and compiled the collected wisdom of clinicians from several sources: his own teachers, donated offerings from other physicians around the country, and other writers who have influenced the profession. He refers to this last group throughout the book by footnotes that reference an impressive reading list for the clinician philosopher. The list includes both contemporary and classic works, such as Haley's The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton Erikson, Castlenuevo-Tedesco's The Twenty-Minute Hour, and Odegaard's "Dear Doctor: A Personal Letter to a Physician." The book is worth the list of suggested readings, in and of itself.
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