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The thought of electricity
One person (Virago (UK); Washington Square Press (US))

from house UNTO Gray’s AnatomyThere is a good reason why medical profession that inspires many popular series. Traveling to a patient by hospital system can be a reflection of the honored narrative hours, with a beginning, one-half and a movement and constant increase in stress.

As we can think of medicine as a hard science – blood, bone and pharmaceutical – also talking to neurologist Prika Anand in his lyrical and always spell on the first book, The mind of electricity: stories of hardness and surprise to our brain.

When Anand was in California’s medical school, he was concerned about his predilection for narration with him. In fact, he knows, “the ways people choose to say their story” can be as revealing as any consequences of the test.

It is part of his debt, in his writings and his medical practice, in the latter author of the author and neurologist Oliver Stocks, who came from his patients as well as related to their patients accessories. The thought of electricity – he respectfully suggests – is at the root of the most well-known jobs in the sacks, The man who mistook his wife for a hat.

There is no hope to match the origin and light of sacks, but Anand shared his identity, curiosity and wide wisdom. Her prose is as beauty and controlled when dealing with intricate, often bad brainworks like how to tell patients with patients.

but The thought of electricity more than one collection of “clinical stories”. Anand line is the essential importance of talking to medical practice. Human desire for narration, noticeable, is ancient, universal and stronger to keep the brain’s strongest damage “.

How the patient describes their health condition, whether good or bad, may not be supported by assessing a doctor or their important signs. Anand describes a patient, a retired pediatrician, interpreted comatose after a brain haemorrage. He seemed to have a perfect recovery, other than the fact that he had left the hospital bed every morning to his brothers, his associates and other partners.

Anand does not cause ways our brain can mislead us, and how it is to exist as a failure and part of medical care. But it is not cheats in patients who should be considered; The doctor is equally related, and can still fall.

Anand shows how the transitions of his own health affected his way of his work – from the loss of medical training in “Neetom Fire” that he began to listen to but neglected to listen. (It was later revealed to cause a malformation in the veins that connect his brain to his heart.)

“Information of the Medical Practice power”, the and reasoning, not only the arrogance of the doctor – knowing – but with false windows it raises – between false binaries and subjects accounts and subjects. By Historically, many confidently delivered diagnosis of “scientific” understanding that is simple – think The idea of ​​”Wandering Wombok”.

Although references to the revisions of Anand and the first reporters of the sacs were not lost, The thought of electricity I think more A body made of glassCaroline Crampton’s history and personal account of Hypochondria. Where Crampton writes from patient’s sight, Anand describes as a doctor who is the same “long liminous expanse that puts between good and illness”.

The two books suggest a emerging open mainly of medical mysteries, not only in dramas, and maybe dichotomies long-ask – and healthy brains and health – not always clear.

on The thought of electricityThe Anad shows empathy, humble and deep interests of the people who have loaded a unique doctor – and where, in a perfect world, consistently in most professions.

Elle Hunt is a writer based in Norwich, UK

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