An Amazing Murmur Of The Heart (PDF)

By: Cecil Helman

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Synopsis: Cecil Helman - GP, award-winning anthropologist and acclaimed writer - looks back on a life-time of encounters with patients to ask: 'Where has the patient gone?' And answers that patients 'are still here, waiting for their doctors to notice them again, to shift their attention away from all their magic machines and high tech tests, and to listen to their stories again. And hidden away in those stories, to hear the faint, almost inaudible, murmuring of their hearts.' An Amazing Murmur of the Heart mingles those patients' stories with Cecil's understanding that medicine is an art, though rooted in science, and that by listening to what the sick are saying - not necessarily just in words - healthcare professionals can do more than simply cure symptoms - they can heal.