JUDITH COLLIER
MURRAY LONGMORE
KEITH AMARAKONE

2013

This is the first medical textbook to take the health of its readers seriously on the grounds that the health of one person (a patient) must not be bought at the expense of another (their doctor). It is an unsettling paradox that when we study medicine our own health goes out of the window (fig 1), with long hours of coal-face working often without joy or sustenance as our health is shattered by the weight of an over-full curriculum (no doubt because there are too many organs and we know far too much about them).