Drawing on his extensive experience as both a medical practitioner and a patient, acclaimed author, award-winning physician and ethicist Philip Hebert creates a brave and intimate portrait of the complex ethical questions raised by revolutionary advances in medical diagnosis and treatment.
PHILIP H BERT is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. In 2008, he received the William Marsden Award in Medical Ethics. In 2011, the College of Family Physicians of Canada named him Ontario's Family Physician of the Year. From 1989 to 2010, he was on full-time medical staff at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre where he also acted as a bioethics consultant and chaired the Research Ethics Board. He is the author of Doing Right, a practical guide to ethics for medical trainees and physicians. He lives in Toronto.
"Good Medicine offers no easy solutions to the moral dilemmas
within the practice of medicine. Instead, with the humanity of a
conscientious physician, and the vulnerable realism of a patient,
Philip Hébert offers the power of subtle observations and an
empathic vision. This book is a testament to the real core of
medicine, where amidst the technical prowess of modern tools and
drugs lies a profoundly human endeavour, imbued with ethical
significance, intertwined values and the potential for human beings
to assist each other on their journey through this
life." —Vincent Lam, award-winning author of Bloodletting and
Miraculous Cures and The Headmaster's Wager
"Philip Hébert is the family doctor we all wish we had: curious,
caring and patient. In this book he takes us to the bedside of some
memorable cases and gives us an insider's look at the challenges
Canada's physicians face. Like a good doctor, Philip is willing to
probe a wound in order to heal it. With articulate prose and great
humility he looks unflinchingly at his own flaws and those of our
medical system. I highly recommend this book. These stories will
not only touch you, but teach you how to be a better patient."
—Wanda Morris, CEO of Dying With Dignity Canada
"Dr. Hébert recounts moving stories of patients he has
encountered over his career and the often difficult choices that
had to be made. As a physician and a patient, he urges kindness,
compassion and an open ear when doctors deal with someone facing a
life altering diagnosis. I was drawn in, asking myself: 'What
if that were my mother, or my husband? What would I do? What would
they want?' This book is as much for healthy (ordinary) Canadians
as it is for physicians. Eventually their paths will cross, and how
that relationship unfolds may determine the quality of someone’s
final days." —Avis Favaro, CTV National News-Medical
correspondent
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