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Doctor | Andrew Bomback
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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.
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shanaqui
Doctor | Andrew Bomback
Mehso-so

Definitely not my favourite of the Object Lessons series. My preferred books in this series are about what a thing is, how it evolved, etc. This is a memoir about being a doctor, and about being a son, and about being a parent. It's also casually dismissive of hypochondriacs (a pet peeve, since I have extreme anxiety and am definitely not deliberately wasting doctors' time, and I hate the attitude that I am purposefully doing so).

willaful People who dismiss something for being “all in your mind“ are dismissing an incredibly powerful force. 10mo
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