Medicine From The Heart

MEDICINE FROM THE HEART is a skillfully-woven collection of essays written by an author who has spent more than three decades practicing medicine in rural America. Dr. Remakus uses the real-life experiences of patients and health care providers to analyze contemporary health care issues as well as age-old medical problems. In doing so, he convincingly demonstrates the value of a traditional doctor-patient relationship and its place in modern society. MEDICINE FROM THE HEART is a guided tour through contemporary medicine with stopovers at the homes of some interesting patients and health care providers. The stories are powerful, the messages insightful, and the effects as varied as the entire range of human emotion. From cover to cover, this book will make you think, feel, understand, care, and rejoice in the power of the human spirit. MEDICINE FROM THE HEART deals with such topics as: patient access to health care in America, faith as medicine, the Hippocratic Oath, physician purpose, medical families, the art of medicine, misconceptions about psychotherapy, compassion in medicine, abortions, medical history, taking care of aging and infirm patients, Alzheimer's Diseaes, rural health care, Roy Rogers - the doctor, pro bono medical care, medical errors, dying with dignity, communicating with patients, physician-assisted suicide, physician shortage in America, a treatise on life, the cost of prescription drugs, medicine on a cruise ship, physicians talking about their mistakes, house calls, the importance of screening mammography, obtaining free precription drugs, Santa Claus's doctor, and many other timely subjects.