Cat, You Better Come Home by Garrison Keillor

Cat, You Better Come Home by Garrison Keillor

The old-fashioned doctor, whose departure from the modem medical scene is so greatly lamented, was amply aware of each patient's personality, family, work, and way of life. Today, we often blame a doctor's absence of that awareness on moral or ethical deficiency either in medical education or in the character of people who become physicians. An alternative explanation, however, is that doctors are just as moral, ethical, and concerned as ever before, but that a vast amount of additional new information has won the competition for attention. The data available to the old-fashioned doctor were a patient's history, physical examination, and per- sonal profile, together with a limited number of generally ineffectual therapeu- tic agents. A doctor today deals with an enormous array of additional new information, which comes from X rays, biopsies, cytology, electrographic tracings, and the phantasmagoria of contemporary laboratory tests; and the doctor must also be aware of a list of therapeutic possibilities that are both far more effective and far more extensive than ever before.

Garrion Keillor is an author, storyteller, humorist, and host of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac, all of which can be heard on public radio stations around the country. He was born in Anoka, Minnesota, and raised in a Plymouth Brethren home. Keillor is the author of more than a dozen books, including Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Boys, Love Me, and Homegrown Democrat, as well as numerous magazine essays.

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ISBN 13	9780670851126
ISBN 10	0670851124
Title	Cat, You Better Come Home
Author	Garrison Keillor
Series	Viking Kestrel Picture Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Australia
Year published	1995-05-25
Number of pages	40
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