Educating Doctors: Crisis in Medical Education, Research & Practice: Crisis in Medical Education, Research and Practice

In Educating Doctors, Stewart Wolf critiques the medical establishment and the way those concerned with its various responsibilities discharge them. He puts medicine's responsibilities to society into historical perspective, relating it to social changes. He begins with the ways medical candidates are selected. He continues with commentary on currently designed teaching and learning, the qualities required in a physician and in a medical scientist, and the nature and challenges of disease and what can be done about them. Finally, Wolf provides a useful way of thinking about human biology, to better understand why people become sick or well and what people have to contend with to stay well. Throughout he emphasies the role of the brain in controlling behavior of all sorts, general and visceral.