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David Zigmond. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015, PB , 716 pp, ￡ 25.90, 978-15061733821This is a book about meaning and shared humanity in medicine. David Zigmond, GP and psychiatrist for 40 years, rekindles our half-forgotten understandings of suffering and resilience, often overshadowed by the extraordinary cleverness of modern medicine. He does this through stories, suffused with wisdom and practical good sense; stories that allow us to notice what attracts us to them; stories about how to use medicine and not be used by it. He writes in the form of essays, case descriptions, and letters, spanning 1976 to 2014. He shows us our present medical world reflected in the mirror of the past, and using his keen memory for small details he gives the stories new life and meaning for today. We are jolted into awareness by understandings and inspirations that help us to articulate our otherwise often inchoate thoughts and feelings. For the medical reader, these new insights invite a rekindled fascination and even joy in practising medicine.For most of his career, Zigmond, with his long-term associates, ran his small …