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醫生透過聽筒說出病人的病症，不過，你可曾好奇過：聽筒那頭所聽的生活是什麼樣子呢？

身為內科醫生、情緒管理師和NPR的醫學評論家的本書作者David Watts，結合了一位詩人的優雅和一位醫生的嚴謹，揭露出當今身為一位醫生真的應該要像什麼呢？

從艱困的醫病對話、不尊重的同僚、勇敢的倖存者和實驗室的拮据，作者不隱瞞地說出當代醫學的世界，也分享了存在每位醫生和病人之間心中的真實情感和醫療事實。我們透過作者對待他的病人 ──和他們的怪癖── 的溫暖之心和體貼態度，可以看到一個醫生最內在的生活，同時，也了解到醫生從病人身上獲得到的成長。

David Watts, M.D., is a poet and a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered. He has published three books of poetry and organized the “Writing the Medical Experience” workshops at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Sarah Lawrence Colleage. He lives in Mill Vallery, California.

「每篇都是感性的，有時會展幽默之處」──San Francisco Chronicle

”Even the most routine checkup will never be quite the same. Watts’s sympathy for both physicians and their patients subtly changes our understanding of what it means to heal and be healed, and to put our trust in the hands of a practitioner who is just as complex, flawed － and human － as we are.” ──Francine Rrose, O, The Oprah Magazine