RT Journal
A1 Davies NE
T1 Medicine: Preserving the passion
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1989
FD October 13
VO 262
IS 14
SP 2021
OP 2022
DO 10.1001/jama.1989.03430140139044
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03430140139044
AB The doyen of continuing medical education, Dr Manning, has joined the doyenne of medical communications, Dr DeBakey, to write for practicing physicians a book on how to keep their professional lives fulfilled. The authors contend, and rightly so, in my opinion, that the happiest physicians are those who are good at what they do, those who keep up with what is happening in medicine, those who develop a system, an orderliness, in their practices that prevents error from creeping into their daily activities. And especially it is those physicians in whom there has been inculcated, in the elegant phrase of Alfred North Whitehead, "the habitual vision of greatness."1At the outset I must confess bias. Both authors are friends of long-standing with whom I have worked in times past, so I would not have reviewed the book if I had not liked it.Why did I like it? First of