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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Recommended Gifts > The Optimist The Optimist: Meditations on Medicine Howard Spiro, MD Hardcover: 112 pages ISBN 0975886207 Science & Medicine October 2004 (click below for the very best currently available price for this item)   The familiar musings of Howard Spiro extol the humanitarian spirit in life and medicine, even as new technologies dominate. These 45 essays, published in Science & Medicine from 1994 to 2003, are collected together in a handsome volume. Dr. Spiro's essays examine the state of medicine, society, education, patients, technology, practice, and eating (he's a gastroenterologist!), incorporating allusions to history, philosophy, and literature and flavored with flashes of Dr. Spiro's noted wit. Sure to make all physicians of all specialties laugh, pause, and re-consider life, his essays include the following titles: Loyalty in medical practice Culture and cure What comes around Confessing disability Antiquarian anatomy Precision... and progress? Defervescing diligence with dignity A Roman banquet E-Publishing: virtual and virtuous Hospitalists are here to stay Vigilance and valetudinarianism Doctors as gods Doctors at rest Awe and ugh: two medical meetings Food for thought Facilitating the faculty Saintliness and sanity Dr. Doe, please do Somatization and psyche Zufall zeal Professional courtesy is not obsolete Welch, Winternitz, and a wonderful institute Bacteria and the bandwagon Clouds and crowds Costumes of conformity We can be optimistic about managed care If it ain't broke When a food is not just a food Too many specialists or too many generalists? Delusions and dementia in the old after operation The art and science of placebos Loyalty and managed care Guilt and shame in Vienna and Boston Facing up to patterns Family values: genes or jeans The problems of pain Remembering the History Science in practice Psychosomatic and holistic medicine Everything's coming up lilies When I got sick Images and realities Dr. Howard Spiro graduated from Harvard University School of Medicine, class of 1947. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and is the former head of the Gastroenterology section and Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale. (information above from the publisher) You may also be interested in more: Gift Ideas for Professionals, Nurses & Physicians Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go Back to Pages / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore