Routine Miracles: Personal Journeys of Patients and Doctors Discovering the Powers of Modern Medicine

This book is a call to action from an award-winning medical educator and physician. Dr. Conrad Fischer is saddened by what he sees in the healthcare industry and in the poisoning of young doctors' minds. He wants people to be happy and to be taken care of, both physically and emotionally. His goal is for doctors — as individuals and as a profession —  to break through to the next step in treatment, in emotional understanding and in the wisdom that is able to provide cures and to have a profession of medicine that will heroically take care of all who are in need.

 

Routine Miracles is written for doctors and patients alike. It bridges these two recently segregated groups so they better understand each other. Through engaging stories of patients, their doctors, and Dr. Fischer's candid observations of their interactions, readers experience a multitude of reasons to feel ecstatic about medicine.  

Patients hear stories of hope, experience and strength. They learn details of new treatments and they find the strength to hold on through the pain and fear of their diseases. New things, good things have been coming, faster and faster. Fischer passionately and eloquently shows patients that they have reason to have hope. Hope that something new will come and rescue them and relieve their suffering.

 

In addition, Fischer speaks directly to medical students, residents and physicians in practice: He explains the myriad reasons they should feel the nobility and dignity of their calling. His stories of personal triumphs and failures will persuade them, and the public that surrounds them, to feel a deep sense of joy and accomplishment at what all doctors are able to do with today's modern medical accomplishments. Fischer insists the medical profession feel the grandeur of what it has to offer and to take courage and make heroic efforts to go further, much further.

We have never been able to heal more, cure more, and relieve suffering more.  Routine Miracles is an ultimately uplifting journey to hope and belief in the postivie power of medicine and those who practice it.

An award-winning internist and internationally recognized medical educator investigates the paradox between modern astounding medical advances and the rise of physician dissatisfaction.

“This book covers medical advances that would once have been called miracles but have now become routine. The patients stories within this book yield hope, optimism, and triumph. This is the best time ever to come out of medical school and training.  This fact will inspire and uplift everyone in the medical profession as well as all of us who must, at some point, rely on the art of medicine to see us through.” —Conrad Fischer, MD

What has ruined todays medical students interest in devoting their lives to finding cures for the most rampant diseases riddling our population? How can young doctors not be energized and excited by modern breakthroughs? Why are they not inspired by the ability of current AIDS drugs to increase life expectancy by twenty-five years?

In Routine Miracles, award-winning internist and medical educator Conrad Fischer investigates the disconnect between medical advances and the rise of physician dissatisfaction. Fischer surveyed more than 3,000 physicians and interviewed hundreds of patients to uncover the seeds of doctors discontent. Based upon his findings, he offers a deeply personal and compelling call to action for all of us, doctor and patient alike, to celebrate the present and the future of medicine.

A moving, eloquent, and passionate call to arms for patients and doctors alike about the power of modern medicine to heal the physical and emotional disorders that plague today's medical profession.

“This book covers medical advances that would once have been called miracles but have now become routine. The patients stories within this book yield hope, optimism, and triumph. This is the best time ever to come out of medical school and training.  This fact will inspire and uplift everyone in the medical profession as well as all of us who must, at some point, rely on the art of medicine to see us through.” —Conrad Fischer, MD

What has ruined todays medical students interest in devoting their lives to finding cures for the most rampant diseases riddling our population? How can young doctors not be energized and excited by modern breakthroughs? Why are they not inspired by the ability of current AIDS drugs to increase life expectancy by twenty-five years?

In Routine Miracles, award-winning internist and medical educator Conrad Fischer investigates the disconnect between medical advances and the rise of physician dissatisfaction. Fischer surveyed more than 3,000 physicians and interviewed hundreds of patients to uncover the seeds of doctors discontent. Based upon his findings, he offers a deeply personal and compelling call to action for all of us, doctor and patient alike, to celebrate the present and the future of medicine.

Dr. Conrad Fischer is an award-winning medical educator, Associate Chief of Medicine for Educational and Academic Activities at SUNY Downstate School of Medicine, and Attending Physician at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn NY, and a public health advocate.  He is the author of numerous USMLE test preparation guides and he teaches USMLE test preparation for Kaplan Medical.