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The Laws of Medicine By Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Title:The Laws of Medicine
Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
Format:Hardcover
Page:96 pages
ISBN:1476784841

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike A Pulitzer Prize winning author and one of the world s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little known principles that govern medicine and how understanding these principles can empower us all.Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical res Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike A Pulitzer Prize winning author and one of the world s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little known principles that govern medicine and how understanding these principles can empower us all.Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question Is medicine a science Sciences must have laws statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature But does medicine have laws like other sciences Dr Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline culminating in The Laws of Medicine In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine.Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see Written with Dr Mukherjee s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well being is being treated Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future


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Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and The New Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and The New Republic He lives in New York with his wife and daughters.His book The Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer won the 2011 Pulitzer prize for general nonfiction



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Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike A Pulitzer Prize winning author and one of the world s premiere cancer researchers reveals
The Laws of Medicine
96 pagesSiddhartha Mukherjee

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