# How Not to be a Doctor

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- Authors: [John Launer](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-launer)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2019-08-08
- Genres: Biography: general, Autobiography: general, Reportage, journalism or collected columns

## Description

The essential book on how not to be a doctor - and how to be a better one. Drawn from his popular medical columns over the years, John Launer shares fifty of his best-loved essays, covering topics from essentials skills they don’t teach you in medical school to his poignant account of being a patient himself as he received treatment for a life-threatening illness. Taken together, the stories make the case that being a doctor should mean drawing on every aspect of yourself, your interests and your experiences no matter how remote they seem from the medical task at hand. How Not to Be a Doctor combines humour, candour and the human touch to inform and entertain readers on both ends of the stethoscope.

## Editions

### How Not to be a Doctor

- Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
- ISBN: 978-07-1565-336-4
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2019-08-08
- Language: en_US