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Icarus Plummeting is a short but substantial and engaging read. David Zigmond, a veteran GP and psychiatrist, draws from his diaries and notebooks of several decades to now present authentic vignettes. These vividly written stories describe personal interactions and meanings in healthcare, and how they have changed over a professional lifetime. The prose in Icarus is precise yet poetic, vivid and colourful. Insights are sharp yet sometimes playful. He shows how our success with science has often pushed aside, then flattened, our personal engagements and understandings. Proliferating treatments are vaunted, but care becomes neglected and destitute. This book will stimulate your mind, warm your heart …. yet chill your foresight.

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David Zigmond is a veteran NHS doctor, writer and healthcare activist. His many decades of working as a psychiatrist, GP and psychotherapist have informed and fuelled his many published articles and books. From his earliest writings he has used authentic, vividly written, vignettes to explore and illustrate hidden social and psychological aspects of illness and healing which are mostly disregarded, yet so often crucial. These constitute the art and ethos of medicine, in contrast to its bedrock of science. He has long been publicly concerned that our very successful treatments increasingly push out care which is the art and vocational basis of medical practice – so procedures now displace relationships, data now replaces personal understanding. His work in healthcare education and psychotherapy continue in London.

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