Life and Medicine: Every Patient Teaches a Lesson - Softcover

Li, Yongxin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692545530 ISBN 13: 9780692545539

Publisher: Yongxin Li, 2015

Synopsis

This is the first English medical memoir that has ever been written mainly about American health care by a Chinese immigrant physician practicing in the United States of America. The unique medical stories in this book illustrate the current state of American medicine, the life and times of a Chinese doctor, and some views and opinions on health-related issues from a different perspective. Many aspects of life and medicine are explored: medical mysteries, alternative medicine, common medications (antidiabetics and statins), medical economics, humanity, ethics, religion, sociology, science, philosophy, history, and even some politics. In addition, the author tries to use his personal experiences to demonstrate the differences and similarities between American and Chinese health care systems. These stories are true and instructive: some of them are delightful, some are sad and depressing, and some are heart touching. This is life! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The author has established his own way of living and practicing medicine, the Five S’s: Smile, Simplicity, Sympathy/empathy, Serenity, and Service. Where there is a smile, there is a chance, peace, and happiness. You always have some discomfort somewhere in the body, but you don’t have to take medicine for each and every ailment in order to stay happy and healthy. If internet access can be considered as a basic human right, then universal health care is definitely a basic human right. The author wishes the people of the world, including all Americans, could enjoy this basic human right, the right to access health care equally. Since we have not known everything in life, how can we know for sure things after life? God is everywhere and in our hearts as long as we love and help each other.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Yongxin Li graduated from Guangzhou Medical College (Guangzhou Medical University) in China in the 1980s. He came to the U.S. in 1986 and received his Ph.D. degree in physiology from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1991. He finished two-year residency training in pathology at West Virginia University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio in the 1990s. Since then, he has been practicing internal medicine in a southern state. The time period of this book is the first fifteen years of his medical practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yongxin Li
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692545530
• ISBN 13: 9780692545539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330