War Stories: 50 Years in Medicine, by Michael T Kennedy MD FACS
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War Stories: 50 Years in Medicine, by Michael T Kennedy MD FACS
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A memoir of a medical career of 50 years. The memoir is chiefly about patients and their stories. What we did then and what we know now.
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- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Released on: 2015-06-15
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A remarkable man and a remarkable book By Dennis Littrell Dr. Kennedy, who is a surgeon, begins the first chapter with this quote from 1871: “I really do not think the physicians do much good, and as for the surgeons, I think they do as much harm as they do good.”Of course times have changed and indeed they have changed considerably during Kennedy’s four decades in scrubs. For one thing today’s doctors and surgeons do quite a bit more good than harm. Part of what Kennedy’s memoir is about is chronicling those changes while showing how it was then compared to how it is now.Then for the first year medical student was 1960 when he was admitted to the University of Southern California Medical School. Complications ensued (not of the medical sort) and his career was put on hold by among other things National Guard service.But the memoir is not so much a memoir about the life of Michael Kennedy as it is about the life of a doctor in the twentieth century in the United States, especially the life of a surgeon who is often involved in life and death situations where he must rely on his education, experience and good sense. Dr. Kennedy shows in this memoir from an early age that he knew how important education was; that is how important it is in knowing the latest in medicine and surgical techniques and in gaining from the experience of doctors with more experience. He is what most of us would call an excellent student with a sharp, disciplined mind who became an outstanding teacher. Much of what this book is about is teaching: teaching would be doctors, young people in med school, biology majors thinking of being doctors, and especially surgeons what they can expect from a life in medicine.Kennedy tells us about both his successes and failures, about the good that many doctors and nurses have done and also about where they have failed, and where the system itself has failed. He is not shy about criticizing other doctors although he usually does not. He tells us what it is like to be a patient as well. He includes some interesting stories about patients who did crazy things and made their doctors’ lives extremely frustrating. He tells of patients who would fake conditions, patients who would injure themselves just to get into or stay in a county hospital, patients who would not allow needed surgery, and so on. The range of ailments and conditions that Dr. Kennedy encountered is large, varied, and the uniqueness of each case makes for very interesting reading.There is only one problem with this book and that is the formidable terminology for the lay reader. Kennedy explains most terms as he goes along but like anyone who uses an arcane vocabulary daily he isn’t always aware that the nonprofessional reader may not know what some words mean. The larger problem for the lay reader is that to really appreciate the book requires an understanding not only of the vocabulary but the kind of familiarity that only experience can bring.Despite this I was able to read the book with appreciation and a good understanding, and I am no more conversant with medical terms than anyone else.“War Stories” is an education in itself; it is an adventure that very few of us could have ever experienced; and it is a great primer for aspiring doctors, and possibly a reality check for patients.I should mention that Dr. Kennedy is the author of A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine which I reviewed eleven years ago, calling it a “Splendid piece of work, authoritative and readable.” —Dennis Littrell, author of “The World Is Not as We Think It Is”
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. I absolutely LOVED "War Stories" - a must-read By Family Doc I absolutely LOVED this book. I couldn't put it down. As a physician, I've read many doctor memoirs, but none that were as fascinating as this one. Great stories, excellent explanations of medical science, and totally inspiring. A must-read for new and current physicians - I actually found myself reinvigorated as I read - something I didn't expect!Dr. Kennedy also writes in a way that a non-physician can easily understand, and anyone interested in medicine - or just good storytelling - will enjoy this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. There is no then now By Grady Harp California physician surgeon Michael Kennedy has written a book that most all physicians who trained during the period that he trained would like to write - a meaningful reflection on Medicine the way it was practiced in the mid 20th century as opposed to the way it is manipulated in the 21st century. It is a book that is a fascinating memoir for fellow physicians of his period, a valuable resource for today's medical students who apparently are rushing through the specialty choices, making their career stance one that will assist paying off the enormous loans they incur just to be studying medicine, and in the meantime finding that medicine today is more about computers, technology, gadgetry, gene manipulation, radically different diagnostic tests that test the wallet as well as the disease, extravagantly expensive drugs, and inputting codes on an iPad or tablet rather than making eye contact and heart caring about patients. There is an ever-increasing gap between physician and patient nurture by the eager espionage-like legal malpractice game. `Medicine is changing in ways that make the relationship between doctors and their patients subject to economic forces out of the control of either. The development of new technology is accelerating but the cost of that technology is threatening to place it out of reach.'Michael discusses all this but at the same time he brings the reader into the 21st century in a manner that is not angry or full of vindictive gall that has driven so many physicians away from the once hallowed halls of Hippocrates. Instead Michael teaches medical students the lost art of medicine: `When I went back to teaching a few years ago, it was to help medical students with the very basics of interviewing patients to obtain their symptoms and their medical history and with the elements of physical diagnosis. I teach first year students how to listen, how to ask open ended questions so they let the patient tell his or her own story and how to understand the role of social and psychological factors in disease. Second year students are learning the skills of examining the heart and lungs, how to feel abdominal organs and how to use an ophthalmoscope to visualize the inside of the eye. Along with these technical matters they continue their education about the signs of illness and they learn to summarize and present the patient's case to others.'The main reason this memoir works so well on so many levels is the fact that instead of bemoaning the passage of significant doctor patient interaction, he instead traces his own history as a very respected surgeon - a surgeon who early on embraced that distancing laparoscopic and robotic surgery and thus can speak with experience about the difference between `operating' on a television screen and delicately holding human organs in his gloved fingers and hands. This he does with excellent case histories about patients who made an impact on him as much as he made a difference in their lives. This is the message to medical students and it is rich emotionally and pedagogically. Yes, he touches on the big pharmaceutical issues and the malpractice monopolies, but he keeps things in order - the result being a book about what it means to be a physician, a surgeon, and a humanist. The technical aspect of the book will be welcomed by fellow physicians but the lay public may have a bit of a problem following the terminology. For pliant patient centered medical students it is a bible. This is a very rewarding reading experience. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, July 15
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