Medicine Outside the Box: Musings about health-care issues

From the Foreword by Cal Stiller, M.D.:

"Canada's most respected liver transplant physician takes the reader on a stroll through his life, commenting on any subject -- from the annoying to the absurd, and from the inconvenient to the life-threatening -- that he and his patients have had to endure. . . . They will undoubtedly provide grist for the mills of those who view the medical profession with suspicion and wish to criticize it. But Cam Ghent can legitimately point out the flaws that need to be addressed because he has practised and researched in one of the most dynamic areas of medicine, contributed to its betterment, and earned the right (and he would say obligation) to critically opine on its shortcomings."

Topics include the controversial, such as euthanasia / physician-assisted suicide and questions of ethics; the entertaining, such as the implications of "social distance" and the temptations physicians have to diagnose outside the office; and the just plain interesting, such as medical mystery problem-solving, treating "numbers" as opposed to patients, and many others.