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The Literature of Medicine |15 June 1996

Reviews and Notes: Soulmedicine: Medical Challenges on Life's Uncertain Journey

Francis A. Neelon, MD

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  • Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710
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JE Postley. 249 pages. Golden, CO: Love and Logic Pr; 1995. $14.95. ISBN 0-944634-33-8.
Ever read a book that you would like to like more than you do? I found Soulmedicine to be such a book.
The author, John Postley, a member of the faculty of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, is described on the book's cover as “a family doctor in New York City for over twenty-five years.” In his book he presents, in nontechnical language, a considered vision of how patients should seek (and, I guess, how physicians should provide) care in a world devoted to treatment. Many of the 13 chapters—including the opening chapter, which is about Postley's deep involvement in the final illness of his aged mother—deal with issues surrounding the end of life. Postley exhorts his readers to find a professional guide (read, “family doctor”) who can help them with and sometimes protect them from technological measures that cannot stave off the inevitable (“Death is not defeat. Death is not unnatural. Death will come to us all.”).
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Neelon FA. Reviews and Notes: Soulmedicine: Medical Challenges on Life's Uncertain Journey. Ann Intern Med. ;124:1097. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-12-199606150-00019

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1996;124(12):1097.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-12-199606150-00019

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