A Crash Course in Modern Healthcare

The ultimate handbook for anyone considering a career in healthcare. Designed to provide concise summaries of key ideas and events that have guided and sculpted modern medicine. Discussing topics that will amaze and inspire, but also shock and appal. Medicine has taken a rocky and sometimes dark path to become that which we know today. Here you are guided through the delicate ethics and laws that underpin medical practice, the essential scientific principles that dictate how our bodies function, the landmark historical discoveries of common place techniques today, the complexities of social science that constrain the NHS, and finally the headlines and tragedies that have left medicine changed forever.