Infectious: A Doctor’s Eye-opening Insights into Contagious Diseases

With science as the backbone of his book, Dr. Bowden mainly focuses on the viruses themselves in this three-themed book. The second theme is antibiotics’ swan song, and the third is the tendency of some patients and doctors to diagnose and treat diseases that either do not exist, or, if they do, should never be looked for. Citing the balance between the art and science of medicine as one of the profession’s continuing challenges, he notes that the practice of medicine requires much more than dispassionate observation, careful experimentation and the analysis of large datasets. Somehow doctors have to learn to integrate the personal experience that comes from being with sick people and the evidence derived from rigorous scientific inquiry. Distributed in North America by Independent Publishing Group. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)