"The Other Side of Medicine" is an amusing and challenging reflection of changes and fashions in general practice. Covering various themes including humanity in medicine, communication, and quality assessment of doctors, Peter Tate offers an abundance of personal anecdotes and patient perspectives. Doctors, particularly general practitioners, their trainers and examiners, and medical students will find this romp through a half century of medical life invigorating and invaluable. "This book is a collection of articles and short stories covering a medical career. Some are iconoclastic, the...

Throughout history, birds have fascinated mankind. 'Flights of Fancy' explores the stories told about 30 of the world's best-known species, from the blackbird to the wryneck, drawing on traditions from every corner of the globe.