The Best Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and the Covenant of Caring

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‘ ‹The Best Medicine is a collection of short stories about specialpatient/physician relationships. These real-life stories areunique in that they are told from the perspective of both the patientand the physician. Each story begins with a synopsis ofthe setting and the background of the patient followed by thepatient’s account of how the relationship with the physician developed.’ ‹