Understanding Medicine

This book aims to help the reader develop an understanding of some of the important principles, issues, opinions and practices in modern orthodox medicine and to provide an insight into the way doctors think and work today.
The author does not assume you have special medical or scientific knowledge. He uses simple language to explain how the health system works and who does what within it; how the body works; the nature of diseases; genetic disorders; the mind-body relationship; diagnosis, tests and investigations; preventive medicine; and treatment and surgery.