Looking for the Bigger Picture in General Practice

This thought-provoking book exposes and challenges the hidden assumptions of modern medicine: the body is a kind of machine; symptoms must be caused by disease; health depends on healthcare; prevention is better than cure; things that can be measured are more real than others; how we see things is how they are; relationships are peripheral to medical care; proper doctors just keep going. It encourages readers to reconsider how they think about health and the wider healthcare system, and how to l