--- product_id: 47561009 title: "Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing" brand: "riverhead books" price: "€ 33.34" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 category: "Book" url: https://www.desertcart.it/products/47561009-slow-medicine-the-way-to-healing store_origin: IT region: Italy --- # Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing **Brand:** riverhead books **Price:** € 33.34 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing by riverhead books - **How much does it cost?** € 33.34 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.it](https://www.desertcart.it/products/47561009-slow-medicine-the-way-to-healing) ## Best For - riverhead books enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted riverhead books brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41ZsZblfDJL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A compelling case to reunify modern medicine with its ancient roots *by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2017* In her latest book, Slow Medicine: the way to healing, Dr. Victoria Sweet returns with her familiar style of humble, compelling prose and well-crafted anecdotes, artfully stitched together to form a tapestry of 40 years of medicine.Dr. Sweet’s gentle, but competent voice and comforting, familiar tone, is well suited to distill the complexity of medicine for the layperson. Her approach leaves the novice reader with an informative education, while offering the advanced practitioner the joy of running mental traps on the patients she employs to propel her story – or to simply nod along as she peels back the curtain of modern medicine, exposing the absurdity, chaos, and minutia that spawn from the unhappy modern marriage of economic efficiency and old-fashioned healing.She avoids excessive jargon and the swagger of inflated self-regard so common in those with her expertise, while her gift for descriptive parsimony draws us into the corners and corridors of hospitals and the lives of her patients with a gentle hand, leaving room for our own imagination and contemplation.Slow Medicine is a retrospective that fittingly resembles the medical definition: an examination of the patient’s history and lifestyle. Dr. Sweet guides us through a constellation of her life experiences that culminate in the illumination of some of the most pressing issues of modern medicine.She curates from her experiences such that we don’t merely watch her transformation with distant fascination, but are instead pulled into the examination ourselves, where we experience the power that slowness has to change many things, not the lease of which is the perspective of the observer.This perspective, gifted to us from such an experienced practitioner of medicine, is a fascinating body of work on its own accord. Slow Medicine is, however, far more than an autobiographical story marked by well-planted signposts of insight along some forgotten path of medicine; it is a narrative discovery, both personal and universal.Slow Medicine explores questions about life that transcend medicine without being pretentious, a testament to Dr. Sweet’s humility and authenticity, undoubtedly honed through her experience healing the long-suffering and forgotten souls of Laguna Honda Hospital.Accordingly, Slow Medicine is not a manifesto or a panacea for all of what ails medicine. Nor is it an unwieldy indictment of modern “fast” medicine. It does, however, propose that there is a different way, a “…way of seeing, doing, and being” that re-unites doctor and patient in the craft, art, and science of healing.She writes for the human reader, not just those in her craft. The story is hers but the message is for all, patients or practitioners - for those are the very boundaries she seeks to deconstruct. Slow Medicine will challenge the practitioner, inspire the patient, and remind us all that to heal is above all else, to be human.- Healthy Hildegard ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great read. Victoria Sweet delivers as both a medical ... *by L***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2017* Great read. Victoria Sweet delivers as both a medical historian and clinician who values slowing down and the value of understanding patients whole story. This book left me pondering how have we moved so far away from the physical exam and lasting doctor-patient relationships. Slow medicine is the medicine of the future. ### ⭐ Pretentious and self-indulging *by E***P on Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2019* I was very eager to start this book, I truly love the concept and support the idea of slow medicine. the book starts out excellent setting a stage as to why we need a change in our healthcare system. Chapter by chapter I kept waiting for some form of solution in all the stories but found none. What I heard were stories from a privilleged author who liked to point out how much better they were at medicine than others. At how much more attention to detail and caring they were but ran at the first sign of resistance to what they believed in. This is eveident when the the description of the pharmacist is given. The words can't hide how much the author loathes her colleagues in other disciplines who most times and as two other accounts have given save her from death mistakes. Instead there's a pattern of running from those hard challenges. I hope you enjoy but this was not the journey I expected and that's fine, it's good to disagree and here the other side. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.it/products/47561009-slow-medicine-the-way-to-healing](https://www.desertcart.it/products/47561009-slow-medicine-the-way-to-healing) --- *Product available on Desertcart Italy* *Store origin: IT* *Last updated: 2026-05-15*