Attending Others

by Brian Volck

Book Overview

Becoming a doctor requires years of formal education, but one learns the practice of medicine only through direct encounters with the fragile others called ""patients."" Pediatrician Brian Volck recounts his own education in the mysteries of suffering bodies, powerful words, and natural beauty. It's a curriculum where the best teachers are children and their mothers, the classrooms are Central American villages and desert landscapes, and the essential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620327287
• ISBN13: 9781620327289
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"