Books: The Inner Physician: Why and How to Practise 'Big Picture Medicine': The Whole Doctor.

Abstract

Roger Neighbour RCGP, 2016, PB, 348pp, £24.99 (member’s price), £29.99 (non-member’s price), 978-0850844115 Being a doctor has never been an easy role. We are members of a profession. Within that, we are part of a specialty. Our specialty of general practice has had a rather mixed relationship with the wider profession of medicine. Our profession as a whole has had a rather mixed relationship with our host society, and to the organisations that society has set up that both provide for, and constrain, our work. As individual doctors we are all trying to maintain our sense of coherence. Our specialty is trying to maintain its own sense of coherence, as is our profession, and indeed as is our society and its body politic. It’s not easy these days for us as doctors to think through our role, our tribes, and our society and reach a coherent view of our work and what it should consist of and what shouldn’t be there. There’s no shortage of people telling us what …