Doctor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501338175)

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability to provide a succinct and accurate answer inspires a critical look at the profession of modern medicine.

In sorting through how patients, insurance companies, advertising agencies, filmmakers, and comedians misconstrue a doctor's role, Andrew Bomback, M.D., realizes that even doctors struggle to define their profession. As the author attempts to unravel how much of doctoring is role-playing, artifice, and bluffing, he examines the career of his father, a legendary pediatrician on the verge of retirement, and the health of his infant son, who is suffering from a vague assortment of gastrointestinal symptoms.

At turns serious, comedic, analytical, and confessional, Doctor offers an unflinching look at what it means to be a physician today.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author: Andrew Bomback
ISBN-10: 150133817X
ISBN-13: 9781501338175
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2018
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.40h x 4.70w x 0.60d