Author: TURNER-WARWICK, MARGARET ELIZABETH HARVEY DAME
Title: Living medicine : recollections and reflections
Description: London : Royal College of Physicians of London 2005. First Edition. Fine copy in the original color printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Edition; Hardback edition. Physical description; xv. 326 pages : illustrations (some colour). portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Hardback. Bibliography. Summary; The medical career of Margaret Turner-Warwick. first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians. began in the earliest days of the NHS. She is therefore able to present a unique perspective on the development of the health service and on medical practice during the past 50 years - as a medical student at Oxford in wartime. through training and consultant posts. to Professor of Medicine and Dean at the Cardiothoracic Institute - and finally to her Presidency of the College and Chair of a new hospital trust during the market-orientated reforms of the 1990's. In this fascinating account of her long career - which is firmly set in the context of family life - Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick draws on her experiences to discuss the major issues affecting medicine and healthcare today: how to provide integrated care for patients in the NHS. methods of training medical students and junior doctors. threats to professionalism. the complex and changing relationship between doctors. managers and government. the problems facing tertiary care and clinical research. and how successive organisational changes have actually affected patient care. In the Foreword to this book. Professor Stephen Holgate writes: 'Experience gained during the enormous changes that have occurred in the NHS and University sector by Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick provides a wonderful substrate for the aspiring clinician or academic. The book also provides a compelling read for anyone working in the health service or in medical research and education since it offers a real sense of optimism about the future but. at the same time. draws attention to the pitfalls from which we can all learn.' Subjects; Turner-Warwick. Margaret Elizabeth Harvey Dame.ISBN: 1860162509. Weight in Kg appr.:

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