Act Like a Doctor, Think Like a Patient: Teaching Patient-Focused Medicine

The author, a practicing physician and medical educator, shares what he has taught senior medical students for 35 years. He focuses on the need for medical providers to understand not just the pathophysiology and treatment of disease, but the way in which patients view what is wrong with them, how it came to happen, and what ought to be done about it. The emphasis in clinical medicine should be not just on curing disease but on making patients feel better,