ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores how doctors' Inner Physicians profoundly influence the way they practise medicine. It describes that a vigorous and self-confident Inner Physician is not the enemy of professionalism but potentially its most valuable ally. The book explores that the quality and effectiveness of what doctors do is affected by how familiar and comfortable they are with their own inner worlds, and by how far they can allow their own human uniqueness to be a factor in their clinical work. Students working in Casualty, where their manual skills are useful to the junior medical staff and their enthusiasm is popular with patients, aspire for the duration of their attachment to become A&E consultants, or surgeons, or general physicians.
