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'When I want to know the real rock-bottom truth about what happens
all the time in this doctoring life, what happens to us, and to the
folks who bring us their hearts and worries to be heard, that's
when I turn, every time, to the novelists, the playwrights, the
poets, the essayists, who have given us the sights and sounds, the
feel, of all that goes on, minute by minute. What Tolstoy and
Chekhov knew, we need to know for ourselves, for our own sakes, as
we live out our medical lives.' William Carlos Williams 'The most
fundamental of all consulting skills is genuine curiosity about
other people, the constant urge to wonder 'Why are they as they
are?' We should open our minds to the life of the imagination not
just for its entertainment value, but for the mindset of curiosity
it engenders in us. Such books as John Salinsky describes in this
and his previous volume combine powerful opportunities for our own
professional growth with pleasure and recreation too.' Roger
Neighbour in his Foreword 'This carefully assembled, wonderfully
telling book is a "companion," for sure, a lasting and most helpful
one, for the medical travelling that awaits us.' Robert Coles in
his Foreword.
Guidelines are powerful instruments of assistance to clinicians
capable of extending the clinical roles of nurses and pharmacists.
Purchasers and managers perceive them as technological tools
guaranteeing treatment quality. Guidelines also offer mechanisms by
which doctors and other health care professionals can be made more
accountable to their patients. But how can clinicians tell whether
a guideline has authority and whether or not it should be followed?
Does the law protect doctors who comply with guidelines? Are
guideline developers liable for faulty advice? This timely book
provides a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the many
medical and legal issues arising from the current explosion of
clinical guidelines. Featuring clear summaries of relevant UK US
and Commonwealth case law it is vital reading for all doctors
health care workers managers purchasers patients and lawyers.
I would like to tell you a bit about the sort of bookshop we are.
We are fiercely independent and will never be part of any large
organization. Our stock is quite small and very carefully chosen.
Some might say we are idiosyncratic and even eccentric. To those
people I would say: who cares? If you want run of the mill
textbooks, carelessly written best sellers and formulaic genre
books there are plenty of places to get them. There is only one
Green Bookshop. John Salinsky Superbly written, The Green Bookshop
is a witty and unconventional collection which includes: The best
novels by living writers Books which have something new to say
about primary care Books which might help us doctors look after our
patients better Almost anything that is really well written
Classics, which come up fresh however often you read them Some
history, some biography, and some books by Deep Thinkers' Books
featuring feisty women. And books about love.
The Bristle Merchants Daughter: about the book John Salinsky wanted
to find out more about his mother's life. She was born in 1902, the
first child of parents who had emigrated from Eastern Europe in
search of a better life and freedom from fear. She tried to become
a doctor at a time when women doctors were unusual. She did not
succeed, but her three sons all became doctors. She suffered from
depression as a young married woman and had psychoanalysis with one
of Sigmund Freud's early followers in London. She brought up her
family in Leeds and died at the age of 96, having lived through
nearly the whole of the twentieth century. Apart from a few unusual
features it was 'an ordinary life'. But ones relationship with ones
mother is never ordinary. In this biography, John Salinsky begins
by using his imagination to picture the life of his young
grandparents in Tsarist Russia. He traces his mother's girlhood and
her life as a young wife and parent up to the point of his own
birth in 1941. From here on he blends imagination with memory and
inquiry, trying to make sense of the complex emotions that bind a
mother and her son in love and conflict. His description of the
closeness they achieved in her final years makes moving reading.
Alvin Green has `accidentally' committed a violent crime and is on
the run. The police are after him and so is his victim, bent on
revenge. He decides to flee on a train travelling to Scotland. But
the 9.35 to from King's Cross to Edinburgh is no ordinary train; as
Alvin soon discovers, it is populated by glamorous young women from
films by Alfred Hitchcock who want to draw him into their own
plots. In case he needs legal advice there is also a barrister in
attendance. Can this be a real train? Of course not. Alvin and his
train are the creation of aspiring novelist Andrew Brownrigg, who
is serving a prison sentence for a similar offence to that of his
fictional hero. Fortunately for Andrew, Gainsborough Open Prison is
about to start a Creative Writing Class: and he soon becomes tutor
Jenny Patterson's favourite student.
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