A Country Doctor Writes:

The eBook is now available on Amazon. The paperback edition of A Country Doctor Writes: CONDITIONS – Diseases and Other Life Circumstances should soon also be available on Amazon and will be available through the usual bookseller distribution channels. There is a slight delay because Amazon has suddenly found many of the essays elsewhere on the Internet, so I have to prove that I published them first on my own blog. I’ve always been flattered that so many sites all over the world have republished my work, but at the moment this has (briefly) turned into a negative. Have no fear, I have the proof that my words are my own.

I am also taking the opportunity to announce that my second book in the series, PROGRESS NOTES – Starting, Growing and Staying in the Medical Profession, will be released on September 7. Notice the Holiday release schedule I’m setting for myself (Labor Day in the US)?

My next holiday release book is tentatively planned for Veterans Day or Thanksgiving, and a fourth one might turn out to be lighthearted, inexpensive stocking stuffer for Christmas.

https://amazon.com/Country-Doctor-Writes-CONDITIONS-Circumstances-ebook/dp/B08B67NR7K

Early in our careers, doctors have a tendency to triumph over serious or rare diagnoses we make as we marvel over our newfound skills and the logical complexity of the human body.

At this stage of mine, I often feel sadness when a patient I care for, and care about, develops a symptom that signals the possibility of a serious disease.

— Read on www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/07/when-a-diagnosis-leads-to-sadness-instead-of-triumph.html

Here’s the podcast link:

https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/06/will-telemedicine-make-us-better-diagnosticians-podcast.html

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Today, on Father’s Day, KevinMD posted a plug for my new book with an excerpt that is close to my heart, describing my emotions when hearing fetal heart tones with the office Doppler and the flashbacks that brought from my residency training and my first ever delivery – a double footling breech – and from watching my children and my granddaughter in neonatal intensive care.

“Thirty years ago, I saw more births than deaths. Now I only attend departures. For a minute or two that morning, I was again participating, ever so briefly, in the greatest miracle a physician is privileged to be part of.”

— Read on www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/06/participating-in-the-greatest-miracle-a-physician-is-privileged-to-be-part-of.html

Pain and suffering are warning signals that something has gone wrong. We can alleviate them to a degree, but so far, none of these treatments have brought back health.
— Read on www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/06/theres-a-code-for-pain-but-whats-the-code-for-suffering.html