A Country Doctor Writes:

Doctor publishes book based on his experiences as health care provider

What began as an online blog has turned into a published book based on a Maine doctor’s experiences in the world of medicine.
— Read on www.wagmtv.com/2020/09/02/doctor-publishes-book-based-on-his-experiences-as-health-care-provider/

My second book in the series based on my blog had a working title of Progress Notes. I pictured the bulk of its chapters/essays would be equal parts my personal and other doctors’ observations, circumstances and reflections. But as I went through my archives, I saw many essays with a magazine article flavor (indeed republished quite widely) that seemed logical to include. They have themes like how to be both a more effective and a more healing doctor and how not to get burned out in your pursuit of that ideal.

I have decided the new title will be A Country Doctor Writes: IN PRACTICE – Starting, Growing and Staying in the Medical Profession. It will be about twenty pages longer than CONDITIONS and priced the same. For that book, too, I will offer bulk purchasing of multiples of 10 paperback books for the typical wholesale price of $10 each.

My hope is that both CONDITIONS and IN PRACTICE will be of interest to students from pre-med through medical school, to residents and also practicing physicians. Most of us, from time to time, end up looking for reading material to help us keep the focus and faith in our chosen professions, where so many distractions now cloud our vision of why we are doing what we set out to do.

Hence, IN PRACTICE… Available on or shortly after Labor Day.

I have had some requests for bulk orders. This is now available for $10/book in increments of 10, standard domestic shipping and tax included. This price is essentially the wholesale price bookstores pay. Ships after payment is received.

10 each of CONDITIONS paperback

$100.00

And stay tuned for the September 7 release of A Country Doctor Writes: PROGRESS NOTES – Starting, Growing and Staying in the Medical Profession.

• For single orders, or fewer than 10, visit your local bookstore or buy from Amazon.

Suddenly it’s perfectly clear: There is endless profit potential for countless corporations in America’s chronic disease epidemic, and it is in their interest that people with chronic disease stay as sick as possible without dying from their disease. Why risk research money on acute disease when there is no continuing revenue stream to look forward to?

— Read on www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/08/there-is-endless-profit-potential-to-treat-chronic-diseases.html

“In medicine these days, we seem to do more rescuing difficult situations than mastering an art that inspires and rewards us: The very skills that make us good at our jobs can be the ones that make us burn out.

Doctors are so good at solving problems and handling emergencies that we often fall into the trap of doing more and more of that just because we are able to, even though it’s not always the right thing to do – even though it costs us energy and consumes a little bit of life force every time we do it. And it’s not always the case that we are asked to do this. We are pretty good at putting ourselves in such situations because of what we call our work ethic.”

— Read on www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/08/4-pitfalls-that-run-through-the-minds-and-daily-realities-of-primary-care-doctors.html