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Foreword

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2009

Peter Richards ,
Simon Stockill ,
Rosalind Foster  and
Elizabeth Ingall
By
Sir Roger Bannister CBE DM FRCP
Peter Richards
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Simon Stockill
Affiliation:
Leeds NHS Primary Care Trust
Rosalind Foster
Affiliation:
Barrister at Law
Elizabeth Ingall
Affiliation:
Medical Student
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Summary

The authors between them have more or less seen it all. This book gives a vivid, and fair picture of medical student life and what is involved in becoming a doctor. There is fun and esprit de corps; hard work and even drudgery.

It is also about what it means to be a doctor: the privileges and responsibilities; and about career options and pathways.

If, after carefully considering the issues raised here, you choose medicine and if you are successful in getting a place at medical school, you will be on the threshold of one profession, above all others, acknowledged all over the world to have brought the greatest advances and the greatest benefits to mankind. Medicine has fascination; it has diversity.

For 40 years I have been a neurologist and have never for one day lost the feeling of exhilaration of solving a new clinical problem. Medicine has happily been the core of my life. Study and reflect on this book and medicine might, or might not, become the core of yours too.

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Learning Medicine
How to Become and Remain a Good Doctor
 , pp. ix - x
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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