{"product_id":"slow-medicine-the-way-to-healing-9780399573316","title":"Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients\u003c\/b\u003e.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, \"healthcare\" has replaced medicine, \"providers\" look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes time--time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the course of her remarkable career. Here she relates unforgettable stories of the teachers, doctors, nurses, and patients through whom she discovered the practice of Slow Medicine, in which she has been both pioneer and inspiration. Medicine, she helps us to see, is a craft and an art as well as a science. It is relational, personal, even spiritual. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdom that no algorithm can replace--that brings together \"fast\" and \"slow\" in a truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of healing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780399573316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Victoria Sweet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36637087826076,"sku":"9780399573316","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3adcd1de-9d31-4a3d-a768-29a0fac5dfc6.jpg?v=1603843847","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/slow-medicine-the-way-to-healing-9780399573316","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}