Please Don't Break My Other Leg! A Guide to Empathising with Patients

Valerie Mirvis

University Press of America, $33/£21.95/€37.66, pp 230

ISBN 0 7618 2119 8

http://www.univpress.com/

Rating:

I'd like to report that I read this book from cover to cover and absorbed every bit of good advice that exudes from its pages. But I didn't. It was partly because there's so much to take in (and a lot of it makes painful reading for us professionals), but partly because frankly I found much of its anecdotal style rather too “holier than thou” to digest with …