Clifton K. Meador, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Meharry Medical College as well as director of the Meharry Vanderbilt Alliance. He is the author of eight books, including A Little Book of Doctors' Rules and Med School: A Collection of Stories of Medical School, 1951 to 1955.
. . . it is rare to find an articulate, analytic account of
experience, and even rarer to see how it happened. Unlike a
magician, Meador not only shows the empty hat but also where the
rabbit was hidden. . . Meador taught himself to eschew mind-body
dualism and to expand the range of communication between physicians
and patients that can illuminate the meanings of symptoms. For
these reasons, I recommend Meador's Medical Odyssey to family
physicians who may be fellow travelers.
--Family Medicine
Clifton Meador is undoubtedly a gifted clinician but his greater
gift is his uncanny ability to capture and define the problems in
medicine for which there are no easy labels and no easy cures.
Meador's thoughtful, anecdotal style allows every reader entry into
that most complex of subjects: body and mind in health and
disease.
--Abraham Verghese, author of My Own Country and The Tennis
Partner
We owe Dr. Clifton Meador . . . a debt of gratitude for teaching us
techniques to more effectively listen to the stories our patients
want to tell.
--Journal of the American Medical Association
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