Reviews give further views

In this week's reviews section, Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee (p 718) asks whether the new edition of Tomorrow's Doctors is an idealistic or practical standard to be set for new doctors. Comedian and writer Arthur Smith (p 723) gives us his 15 rules for doctors, which were formulated from his recent experience as a patient; they include: "Make sure that no one dies and everyone gets better." Psychoanalyst Jeremy Holmes (p 722) writes that the search for the good doctor is an illusion and that we should learn to bring our good and bad parts together to become a "good enough" doctor.

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