02112cam a2200301 i 4500 339829867 TxAuBib 20180216120000.0 170601s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017017463 9781594633591 27.00 1594633592 27.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Sweet, Victoria. Slow medicine [BOOK] : the way to healing / Victoria Sweet. New York, NY : Riverhead Books, 2017. 289 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of God's Hotel. Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops more than at theirpatients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes time--time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment. Sweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the course of her career. Here she relates unforgettable stories of the teachers, doctors, nurses, and patients through whom she discovered the practice of Slow Medicine, in which she has been a pioneer. Medicine, she makes us see, is a craft and an art as well as a science. It is relational, personal, even spiritual. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdomthat no algorithm can replace--that brings together "fast" and "slow" in a truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of healing. Provided by publisher. 20180216. Healing. Chronically ill Care. Medicine. Physician and patient.